Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:13:45 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Steven Honson <shonson@planetquake.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pricing question? Message-ID: <199909131013.LAA54420@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:37:14 %2B1000." <3.0.5.32.19990913193714.007cbb80@mail.planetquake.com>
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I do a similar thing myself, but it's not a great ``general''
solution as you end up with lots of names with very small DNS ttls.
> Another way around giving users static ip's would be to write a small
> dynamic dns daemon that assigns users a host name which is updated when
> ever a user dials up, this could be done by hacking pppd and writing a
> small perl/c program that updates a BIND zone file. Of course that could
> only be done if you used FreeBSD/Linux systems.
> You could use the naming sceme, username.cust.myisp.net
> Just a idea,
> Steven Honson
>
> At 11:06 AM 9/13/99 +0200, you wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:41:17AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> >> [.....]
> >> > When I worked for an ISP, a private subscriber could not be given
> >> > a fixed IP. If you had a corporate dial-in you could get even blocks
> >> > of IP##. Of course the price was noticably different. But private
> >> > customers "doesn't need a fixed IP#" (yes, you may flame me now) ;-)
> >>
> >> Of course the ``correct'' thing would be to have the NASs smart
> >> enough to allow the client to request the IP number that they had
> >> last time and allocate it if they can. Currently, no NASs that I
> >> know of are smart enough to do this (except ppp(8) of course!).
> >
> >Cisco AS5300 does exactly this. The user doesn't even has to request it,
> >if the IP number the customer had the last time, is available the
> >customer gets them same number.
> >
> >/Jesper
> >
> >--
> >Jesper Skriver (JS4261-RIPE), Network manager
> >Tele Danmark DataNet, IP section (AS3292)
> >
> >One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them,
> >One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.
> >
> >
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> ---------------------------------------
> Steven Honson
> Internet Technologist & Consultant
> Taroona High School, Australia
> shonson@hubbub.ths.tased.edu.au
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