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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
Why can't they use those apps through NAT? I do it from home quite often. Deepak Jain AiNET On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:59:16PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: > > > > This is not meant at anyone personally, its just something I noticed. > > > > When we are deciding that IP savings, etc are worth it, why not make all > > Cable/DSL/Dialup providers use NAT to map access logins to a small pool of > > IPs too? > > Because that only works if none of your customers want to access their home > boxes from outside in any way, and if none of their applications require a return > channel. > > Telling your customers they can't telnet, ssh, or VNC into their home boxes > costs you all your *nix users, and telling them they can't use Napster costs > you all your Windows users. > > The few Mac users you have left don't keep you profitable. :-) > >
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