[30847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Thu Aug 31 18:29:37 2000
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:09:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Why can't they use those apps through NAT? I do it from home quite often.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:59:16PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote:
> >
> > This is not meant at anyone personally, its just something I noticed.
> >
> > When we are deciding that IP savings, etc are worth it, why not make all
> > Cable/DSL/Dialup providers use NAT to map access logins to a small pool of
> > IPs too?
>
> Because that only works if none of your customers want to access their home
> boxes from outside in any way, and if none of their applications require a return
> channel.
>
> Telling your customers they can't telnet, ssh, or VNC into their home boxes
> costs you all your *nix users, and telling them they can't use Napster costs
> you all your Windows users.
>
> The few Mac users you have left don't keep you profitable. :-)
>
>
