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Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?


From: Dan Hollis <goemon () anime net>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 16:56:40 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 2 May 2002, Simon Higgs wrote:
At 01:20 AM 5/2/2002 -0700, Scott Francis wrote:
The average customer buying a "web-enabled" phone doesn't need a
publicly-routeable IP. I challenge anybody to demonstrate why a cell phone
needs a public IP. It's a PHONE, not a server.
I'm not buying a phone I can't run ssh from. End of story. My current phone 
does all that and more. Why step back into the dark ages of analog-type 
services?

The average customer doesn't even know what telnet is, let alone ssh.
All they care about is browsing pr0n.

-Dan
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