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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:41:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr (HERBELOT Thierry)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DHCP weirdness ?
Message-ID:  <199902161441.JAA01202@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <36C9399B.48CCDAC7@telspace.alcatel.fr> from HERBELOT Thierry at "Feb 16, 99 10:25:47 am"

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HERBELOT Thierry wrote,
> Chris Peltier wrote:
> > The Cable providers do this to prevent customer from running
> > servers on their network. They don't want to block inbound
> > syn connections so instead they change IPs.

But cable providers supply DNS. You can still find a server by
name. What would changing IP addresses do?

> ( other questions would be : have other ppl on the list had the same
> problem ? what is the policy of @home / Road-Runner ? )

I have been a @Home subscriber since October. My IP address has never
changed.
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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com

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