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. ___________________________________________________ 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