Re: ARIN?

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

At 12:35 AM 11/8/98 -0500, Adam Rothschild 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)
>
> Yah, point well taken.
>
> Besides, AFAIK, @Home AUP expressly forbids users from offering web and
> ftp services of any sort off their boxen.  

Unless they're doing contiuous port scans on all their IPs, they'll never
know. Besides, there's always the IP equivalent of dial-back <grin>.

> Of course, that's not to say that there are not pseudo-31337 w4r3z-kiddi3z
> out there who do so anyways...8-)

As I said <grin>

@HOME's business/operations model is NOT one I particularly like. Folks
should be free to run home servers. I'm thinking more along the lines of
"smart house" which has to have a server. A "smart house" could never exist
on the @home network. It's almost as bad as AOL. It stifles innovation.


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