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From: Andor Demarteau <ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Static IPs
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 19:49:08 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0109081948140.27801-100000@abeel.students.cs.uu.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010907203857.UUIJ557.femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com@eklhad>

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Karl Dahlke wrote:

 > Someone described a pseudo-always-on dsl connection from Ameritech,
 > wherein the company drops you if you're not busy,
 > and you wake up with a new ip address.
 > What a frightening thought.
have a look at http://www.dhs.org
great and quick service to get a dynamic-ip with a fixed-hostname.
Works fine.


 > I've just started hosting my own web site, on my own machine,
 > and I don't know why I didn't take the plunge long ago.
 > It's easy, and it's fun.
 > There are numerous advantages, and a couple disadvantages.
 > Well anyways, it would be unthinkable if I had such a terrible isp.
 > I certainly can't reprogram all the name servers on the internet
 > every time they decide to give me a new ip address.
 > The cable at-home service doesn't work like that,
 > and I have nothing but good things to say about them.
 > They even tried to help me set up,
 > knowing that I was on Linux.
 > That's pretty rare.
 > 
 > Getting back to the IPs;
 > one day we lost the bill, or it got lost in the mail, or whatever,
 > and I was behind, so they turned off the service.
 > I called with my credit card to turn it back on and asked,
 > please please please,
 > can I have my old ip back again.
 > "Sure, we've been saving it for you."
 > Now that's class,
 > and its certainly important to those of us who are hosting our own sites.
 > 
 > Karl Dahlke
 > 
 > 
 > 
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Karl Dahlke
 ` Henry Yen
   ` John J. Boyer
     ` Janina Sajka
       ` Ari Moisio
         ` Andor Demarteau
           ` Ari Moisio
             ` Andor Demarteau
 ` Kenny Hitt
 ` Andor Demarteau [this message]
   ` Ray Saldana III
     ` John J. Boyer
       ` Andor Demarteau
         ` John J. Boyer
           ` Andor Demarteau
         ` Ray Saldana III
           ` John J. Boyer
             ` Ray Saldana III
               ` Andor Demarteau
     ` Andor Demarteau

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