In message <cagodq5moeqda95bnr3jeglpnq0vtdq7mqmpk_aqoxcumaah...@mail.gmail.com> , Benjamin Kerensa writes: > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Mark Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > What this does not cover is a service that is listenning on a well > > > known port. This is rare among home nets (except for homes of readers > > > of IETF lists) but very common among enterprises. > > > > At the moment. There is no good reason to not be listening on > > standard ports if you want to provide your own servers within the > > home. DNS will almost certainly be done if only to as hidden > > masters. Just publish your current addresses in the DNS and they > > can be reached. Cable and DSL are always on services. Homes are > > no longer dialup. > > I disagree with the assertion that "Homes" are no longer on dial-up since a > good portion of Rural America still does not have Broadband which means > millions are still on Dial-Up and I hear parts of Europe still use Dial-Up.
The argument being made was that homes don't have long lived connections and that isn't true anymore. The majority of homes are always on. This percentage will continue to increase. As of 2006[1] the majority of households in Australia had Internet connections and the majority of those were classed as broadband. The 2011 data isn't available yet but will be before the end of August. Even in the bush it isn't dialup, it's radio links of one form or another. Mark [1] http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/ViewData?action=404&documentproductno=0&documenttype=Details&order=1&tabname=Details&areacode=0&issue=2006&producttype=Census%20Tables&javascript=true&textversion=false&navmapdisplayed=true&breadcrumb=LPTD&&collection=Census&period=2006&productlabel=Type%20of%20Internet%20Connection%20by%20Number%20of%20Persons%20Usually%20Resident%20by%20Household%20Composition&producttype=Census%20Tables&method=Place%20of%20Usual%20Residence&topic=Dwellings&; -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: [email protected] _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
