Yes, my ISP is charging me for my DNS entry -- a static entry made once in a
zone file, but I'm paying monthly to have a domain name! Never mind that I
don't use their mail server or Web page service or DNS server....
And yes, additional IP addresses were going to cost dramatically more. NAT
was a simple case of economics... but on the other hand, I don't experience
any "lack" because of it. I don't play UDP-based games or employ any of the
other relatively new protocols that are so sensitive to end-to-end-ness
(should they be? was that a valid assumption?), so a NAT is a great solution
for me.
NAT would be bad if an ISP were using it to artificially expand its address
space; the use of NAT at the "small-time" end user's site seems quite
practical and beneficial, especially in a world where ISPs are going to hold
up non-naive users for ransom. Cheers -- Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Shockey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 8:00 PM
To: Keith Moore
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?
At 07:02 PM 11/29/1999 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
> > Many of the people who have deployed NATs are responding directly to the
> > address scarcity (and resultant cost). If you consider that many ISPs
now
> > have different pricing models for multiple IP addresses than they do for
a
> > single (regardless of bandwidth used), it isn't surprising.
>
>no, not surprising (and in fact some people predicted it), but
>it is surely unfortunate.
I can personally testify to the above comments. Consider...we are all IP
professionals ...so we'd like to occasionally play with all of the
wonderful toys we've built...at home. Our fathers stuck their heads under
the hoods of cars or played with short wave radios...we play with IP.
Now try and ask your friendly neighborhood DSL or Cable Modem provider
about getting a nice chunk of IP addresses. Well we all know what DSL
really means ..._D_riveway _S_ite _L_iaison or the modern version of "Who
on first?".
You want to run a web server, DNS (from home?) IPP printer accessible
printer ( DUH what's IPP?), SIP phone .. pick your application. To the
service providers the request for IP addresses is some sort of strange
signal that you're running a eCommerce site from home or worse a Game/Porn
site. Something that they believe they should charge more money for.
The path of least resistance is just install a NAT. The market for NAT
device/software products are being driven by in part the lack of IP4
numbers but certainly the lack of knowledge, marketing skills or just plain
greed of the ISP community.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Richard Shockey
Shockey Consulting LLC
8045 Big Bend Blvd. Suite 110
St. Louis, MO 63119
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