[thelist] domain self-hosting

[Martin]

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the head lemur wrote on 4/5/01 4:49 pm

>AT&T, Sprint and the other broadband providers are reluctant to provide
>folks static IP's  for this very reason. with DHCP they control the
>connection, not you.

Also with DHCP they don't need so many IPs for the customer base
as they're assuming that not all customers will be online at the same
time. So (small example) you could have 256 IPs serving 500 customers
as long as you're comfortable that no more than 256 will be online
at one time.

Cheers
Martin

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