On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 13:41 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, August 11, 2011 05:31:21 PM Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > *You* confused things. You mixed ISPs and hosting. You can't. > > An Internet Service Provider is an Internet Service Provider regardless of > the type, bandwidth, or technology of the pipe provided, regardless of the > number of IP addresses, and regardless of whether the hosts on their networks > are primarily eyeballs (typical consumer at the end of a DSL, cable, or other > dynamically assigned single IP address (in IPv4) connection) or content > providers. A hosting provider will have its own ISP; our ISP's here do both > hosting and eyeballs. Yeah, a single ISP can have co-lo cages, large transit > and peering customers with multiple /24's each, as well as a consumer-grade > dynamically-provisioned single-IP-per-customer eyeball net. > > No ISP is entirely an eyeball network (in NANOG list terminology). > > But this thread is getting entirely out of hand. ---- considering that it began as a rant which was inappropriately targeted, I would say that it was out of hand when it began.
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