Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-17 Thread Mark Neidorff
I disagree. I signed up for a connection to the Internet and bandwidth--period--when I contracted with my isp. This recent nonsense of blocking ports is just plain insulting. Assuming that I am a responsible citizen (which any administrator needs to be on ANY network) on the Internet, what I

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-17 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 May 2002, Mark Neidorff wrote: Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 17:24:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Neidorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY I disagree. I signed up

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-17 Thread Mike Burger
No, they don't have to allocate teh disk space...but you're not saving them money...you're in effect costing them more, by having to route the extra traffic to you. What do your terms of service say on the matter? I'm assuming that the TOS assumes you're a home user, not a business user. By

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-17 Thread Mike Burger
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: I disagree. I signed up for a connection to the Internet and bandwidth--period--when I contracted with my isp. This recent nonsense of blocking ports is just plain insulting. Assuming that I am a responsible citizen (which any

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-17 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:47:20PM +, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: Mark is absolutely right in this case, all we are really paying for is the connection and the bandwidth and that's the end of it, whatever the customer does with it is protected under the first ammendment, barring anything

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-17 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Mike Burger wrote: Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 18:11:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY No, they don't have to allocate teh disk space...but you're not saving them money

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-17 Thread Javier Gostling
Hal Burgiss wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:47:20PM +, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: Mark is absolutely right in this case, all we are really paying for is the connection and the bandwidth and that's the end of it, whatever the customer does with it is protected under the first

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-17 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:50:20PM -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: Hmm... I understand that this kind of fine print has as much legal strength as that of Microsoft's EULA. The one that says that by opening the package you agree to the terms in the EULA. To the best of my knowledge, there is

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-16 Thread Alan Peery
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: Is there a way an experience tech (their probably going to have one) can hide the fact your not on a dedicated server or is it impossible to mask? I'm not perfect, but I can see no way in which they could mask this, so I'd call it impossible. If

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-16 Thread Lloyd Duhon
Set up DNS services and URL forwarding services with your registrar of your domain, and forward your URL to a port other than 80. At 05:02 PM 5/15/2002 -0400, you wrote: Is there a way an experience tech (their probably going to have one) can hide the fact your not on a dedicated server or

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-16 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:02:25PM -0400, ebinc wrote: Is there a way an experience tech (their probably going to have one) can hide the fact your not on a dedicated server or is it impossible to mask? ??? Question does not compute. Im sorry if it seems like Im flipping out!

RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-15 Thread ebinc
Is there a way an experience tech (their probably going to have one) can hide the fact your not on a dedicated server or is it impossible to mask? Im sorry if it seems like Im flipping out! but this DSL/CABLE COMPANY IP buck sucking is crazy at first there selling point was always on! no noise,

RE: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-15 Thread Joshua Cragun
: ebinc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE DSL IP ROBBERY Is there a way an experience tech (their probably going to have one) can hide the fact your not on a dedicated server or is it impossible to mask? Im sorry if it seems like Im

RE: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-15 Thread Jim Cunning
a script to update DNS everytime your connection is reset. Josh Cragun. -Original Message- From: ebinc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE DSL IP ROBBERY Is there a way an experience tech (their probably going

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-15 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 5/15/2002 05:02 PM -0400, you wrote: Is there a way an experience tech (their probably going to have one) can hide the fact your not on a dedicated server or is it impossible to mask? I'm not perfect, but I can see no way in which they could mask this, so I'd call it impossible. Im sorry if

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-15 Thread Mike Burger
In all fairness, always on does not equal always grabbing the same IP. Always on means that your connection can be on 24/7. However, it does not mean that if you disconnect, or if you're on a DHCP based connection, that you're going to get the same IP, every time. You weren't guaranteed a

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-15 Thread Ed Wilts
Is there a way an experience tech (their probably going to have one) can hide the fact your not on a dedicated server or is it impossible to mask? I'm not perfect, but I can see no way in which they could mask this, so I'd call it impossible. If you use something like VMware, then it's

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-15 Thread Mark Bradbury
I think this may be able to hide the fact your on a virtual server even if you are root. http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 11:41, Ed Wilts wrote: Is there a way an experience tech (their probably going to have one) can hide the fact your not on a