At 11:36 AM 11/7/98 -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
Gary E. Miller wrote:
My local cable company, Bend Cable, gives out static IP with RoadRunner service.
I also know several folks on @Home in Fremont, CA, that have static IP addresses.
Our dedicated accounts get static, as I am sure is the case with most ISPs. Non-dedicated can get static only for a fee. The rate structure starts at $8 for a /32 and goes up to about 25% above the ARIN fee for address space. The customer must also assert why they need it.
I just wish I could swip the /30's, /31's, and /32's we give out, to ARIN. We're putting in more NAT and proxy boxes for businesses and are doing more networks smaller than /29 these days. Yet ARIN still encourages us to use a /29 when a /32 would do. I'll probably swip the /29 containing them as just a commentary saying something like "contains /32 assignments" when I get my network database going.
What this means is that ARIN is restricting the DNS management. If you have less than a /29 then you are not allowed to manage your own domain-space without a handler. That handler is the ISP. To be honest, most of our /29's are too clueless to handle DNS, in fact most of them are Microsoft-only LANs whom I don't trust DNS to anyway. I have yet to see a BIND port to any version of Windows, with resolver library, that worked. Gotta have a Unix box in the LAN somewhere in order to do that ( and a bunch else besides). Most of our /29's cann't even spell Unix. I take that back, I was just informed that we have some Apple-talk and Novell LANs as well. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com>rmeyer@mhsc.com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky