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Re: ARIN?


From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 18:08:59 -0800

At 08:44 PM 11/7/98 -0500, TTSG wrote:

The need for static IP comes from them wanting to run their own web-server.

      Not necessarily.  I asked an ISP for a static IP for security
reasons. ("Trusted hosts" and stuff like that there)

Notice, I never said otherwise. The web-server is a trivial and common
example. Security issues are substantially less familiar to most folk.
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