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> From: Jake Messinger <jake@ams.com>
> To: thoth@purplefrog.com
> Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com; takes a licking and keeps on ticking
<dog@gainesville.fl.us>
> Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC !! DNS
> Date: Monday, August 11, 1997 12:39 PM
>
> On Mon, 11 Aug 1997 thoth@purplefrog.com wrote:
>
> > Latest example of Internet Piracy. Here in Gainesville, BellSouth
wants
> > $100/month to insert the delegation records for the blocks they give
you. If
> > you don't pay, reverse dns will not work.
>
> This is illogical. When they sign you up, they reserve for you a block of
> IP addresses and must make an entry in a table(s) to route those
addresses
> to you. Do they charge you monthly for that? Not explicitely (i dont
> think); its part of your monthly access fee. They are only doing half
> their job then if they do NOT ALSO delegate YOU as the reverse authority
> for those address blocks. It should be part of the global fee (imo).
>
> Choose a different upstream provider and remind them that MCI (afaik)
does
> not charge a monthly fee for this. We use Time/Warner and all i had to do
> was make a phone call and it got changed. They initially did NOT because
I
> did not go thru Time/Warner directly.
>
>
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> Jake Messinger 713-772-6690 jake@ams.com
> Advanced Medical Systems, Inc. jake@uh.edu
> 8300 Bissonnet #400
> Houston, Texas 77074 http://www.ams.com/~jake
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