MCS/Winstar - what an attitude
Jeff Liggett
customer/tech support or lack thereof will drive them back to the local
ISP's.
I may regret this post in a minute or two so I will fire it off now.
Jeff Liggett
Pres. ANET
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Phil W. Schuman wrote in message <7c62sa$sr7$1...@eve.enteract.com>...
>here is an interesting Email dialog from the folks at MCS/Winstar
> actually down in Purdue land I'm guessing -
>
>I was basically inquiring about running a full Class-C IP address space -
>BTW - I do know about NAT, and run it on several of our ISDN routers.
>
>Here were the replies....
>along with what seems to be some accidental internal chatter...
>
>nice attitude, along with the goofy domain name -
>at least as seen from a MCS.NET customer -
>
>Phil -
>
>Return-Path: <fle...@cioe.com>
>Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 09:29:04 -0500 (EST)
>From: Kevin Fletcher <fle...@cioe.com>
>To: Steve Ames <st...@ns1.cioe.com>
>cc: psch...@otcg.com, sup...@mcs.net
>Subject: Re: ISDN upgrade
>
>yeah, I worked for a consulting firm in Jackson, MS. and one of our
>clients was the state of Mississippi. Like, the STATe.. the whole thing..
>like all the political side of it was run off of one IP.. it was the IP of
>their STATE-WIDE DNS server, which was used by 6 or 7 diff. school
>DISTRICTS (running Novell WANs/LANs) and all of the state departments (NT
>networks and domains) It was crazy because EVERYBODY.. I MEAN EVERYBODY
>had a 10. IP address and looked to that same DNS server (and a backup) as
>their DNS lookup server. It was insane.. There are over 10,000 computers
>down there that were on that state backbone..
>
>sheesh! And this CONSULTANT, yeah right, doesn't know what an internal IP
>address IS I bet.. I could walk up there (or better yet email) and talk to
>that company and tell them how their "consultant" is about to attempt to
>lose them a couple hundred dollars buying all these IPs..
>
>I should send an anonymous email saying "buddy, researhc internal address
>real quick be fore you do that.."
>
>hahah
>
>some people these days.. I'll tell ya!
>
>I NEED to get outta college NOW! aargh! it blows!!
>
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>Kevin Fletcher 1-800-947-2463
>fle...@cioe.com http://www.cioe.com
>WinStar/CIOE/MCS Technical Support http://www.winstar.com
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>On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Steve Ames wrote:
>
>>
>> This isn't even something we normally do. You would have to provide
>> a pretty convincing justification for that much IP space. Modern
>> equipment/software provides for such services as NAT and proxy. Whole
>> businesses can run on 1 IP address these days. I personally at home
>> run an email server and 5 web sites on 1 IP address...
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>On Wed, 10 Mar 1999,Phil Schuman wrote:
>
>> > We are currently running an MCS ISDN 2B account -
>> > it has 8 IP addresses.
>> >
>> > What would be involved in expanding our account
>> > to say support 64 IP addresses ?
>> >
>> > How much would the monthly cost be ?
>> >
>> > tnx - Phil -
>> >
>
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