[48913] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Wed Jun 19 14:55:12 2002
From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:54:39 -0400 (EDT)
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[ On Wednesday, June 19, 2002 at 10:38:13 (-0400), Chris Woodfield wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?
>
> If the people who "vote with their wallets" here are the ATTBI customers, don't
> forget that if you're not served by DSL, cable broadband is really the only
> good option for broadband access (I'm not counting satellite, with >1s ping
> times, or wireless, which is still in its infancy as a residential solution).
Sounds like an opportunity for some competing provider if you ask me,
though as you say:
> And rarely will you find a home anywhere in the US served by more than one
> cable company.
Was there not once upon a time there was a proposal to require cable-cos
to provide what would effectively be layer-2 service to any IP provider?
I think that requirement still stands in Canada, but until newer
standards-compliant cable modems become more common it's "hard" to do
and so nobody's doing it yet (and there is some whining on both sides).
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