Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?

[Daniel Senie <dts () senie com>]

At 04:32 PM 6/19/02, Chris Woodfield wrote:

> Time Warner agreed to do so as a condition of the AOL merger. Most other 
> cable
> companies are fighting this tooth and nail, and winning (see AT&T in 
> Portland,
> Oregon).

And in doing it, so far they seem to only be allowing the likes of 
Earthlink, not smaller providers. If anyone's got news to the contrary, I'd 
sure like to hear it.


> -C
>
> > 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).
> >
> > --
> >                                                               Greg A. Woods
> >
> > +1 416 
> 218-0098;  <gwoods () acm org>;  <g.a.woods () ieee org>;  <woods () robohack ca>
> > Planix, Inc. <woods () planix com>; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird 
> <woods () weird com>

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