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. ___________________________________________________ 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