From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 27 18:10:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA16621 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 18:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA16613 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 18:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) id VAA22252; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 21:07:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199607280107.VAA22252@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: user PPP server problem To: flaq@synwork.com (Mike K.) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 21:07:10 -0400 (EDT) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-questions) In-Reply-To: from "Mike K." at Jul 26, 96 05:22:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The Internic does not assign IP's. They only maintain the database of > registered domains. He will have to get a domain registered, probably by > his ISP since he can't provide his own DNS. The ISP will then assign him > a block of IP's for a price. > They gave me 199.245.130.0-->255 when I asked a couple of years ago. My problem is most ISP's want REAL $$$$ to route traffic in to a home network -- thinking that I'm a major league business rather than a hacker with too many old machines on my hands. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 908-389-3592 | pechter@shell.monmouth.com I'll run Win95 on my box when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. FreeBSD, OS/2, CP/M, RT11, spoken here.