OT?: Emailing from within filepro

[Bill Vermillion]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 04:17:52PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth thus spoke:
> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:00:11PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > The only strange thing about that site is the public IP space they
> > have on their internal network.  The started out as a .US domain
> > and they have their onn IP block allocated to them from ARIN as
> > they are serving public/education with their services.  
> > 
> > But you won't find any DSL provider who will route your private
> > blocks, and few major providers who will do so for only a /24
> > address.

> Untrue. We used to get ADSL from a small local Tampa provider,
> copper by Verizon, and they were happy to assign us a public
> /28, and route it, so we could firewall it -- I have no doubt
> that if we'd brought our own address space, tehy'd have
> advertised it; the techsupport guys both had the keys to the
> GSR.

This was not address space 'assigned' to this company/organization.
It was an IP address block they own outright. No one else will ever
have that block unless they turn it back to ARIN.

Bill





> Cheers,
> -- jra
> -- 
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