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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk
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> The home network, once it is in place, will use DHCP (the cable modem
> router comes with a built-in DHCP server and firewall). The modem itself
> will only see the router and will not be aware that there are multiple
> computers on the other side of the router. I have only one IP address;
> technically it is dynamic, but since the connection will be open 24/7 it
> effectively becomes a static IP address.
That sounds like NAT. And be aware the the cable companies are working
quite hard to come up with technology to detect how many devices you
connect, especially those nasty wireless Ethernet access points that let you
share your bandwidth with your neighbors. Anyway, with something like
EasyDNS' Dynamic DNS (see http://support.easydns.com/service/dns-plus.php3)
you can operate a server that is accessible from the rest of the Internet.
I should also note that around here, the cable companies are starting to say
"no servers" in their AUPs.
> >Are you looking for server space for Brin-L stuff?
>
> In a while, yes. My website is currently approx. 10 MB in size, and with
> the various planned additions I will eventually need more than the 15 MB
> disk space I get from GeoCities. It will be quite a while before
> the Great
> Brin-L Archive goes on-line, but once *that* happens I will need a few
> hundred MB of disk space.
Well, that doesn't bother me. It's already eating up space on my disks
anyway.
> The main reason for setting up my own web server is money: by doing it
> myself I can host Brin-L.com with all the disk space and POP3 e-mail
> accounts I need, without having to worry about how much it is
> going to cost me.
Fixed, predictable costs are very nice to have.
> My website, hosted on a Mac? I can already see William Goodall
> ROTFLHAO... :-)
Well, it'll be Linux, not the Mac OS. But my first web servers, back in '93
or '94, were running some pre-release version of MacHTTP, so I've done it.
In fact, this very machine probably has one of its descendants installed on
it, on the MacOS partition.
I'll see if I can't get the 7500 up and running here and drop you an e-mail,
off-list, with details.
Nick
