An ISP of their own (was RE: [rescue] Being jobless)

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> >> It helps, that if you have, your own class C IP address (like I do).
> >> You'll have to do a lot of 'splaing to folks, but you also can rather
> >> quickly weed out the ISP's that don't know very much....my favorite
> >> line was "You don't have a class C address" to which I replied, "Why
> >> don't you go to Arin and check..."...a few sec, and a very quiet "oh,
> >> I'm sorry".  Needless to say, they didn't get my business.
> >
> > So ...  how (and when) *did* you get your own allocated Class C?
>
>    ...and what I want to know is, how did he keep a friend from TAKING
> IT.  *grumble*
>
>        -Dave, formerly 204.91.10/24, *sob*

Not much of a friend, that person.

Peace...  Sridhar