[BUGS] new network technique, combining a /32 adsl address with a routable /24

[Trevor Roydhouse]

jonathan michaels wrote:

> i cannot get a commercial
> account, i.e to run internet servers on the hosted machines.
> read your personal account contract and find out how many
> 'servers' you can run before they take away your account and
> send in the lawyers to recover costs .. 

While some ISPs do not allow residential customers to run servers, all 
those I've looked at including Exetel (current ISP), Netcall(current 
ISP), aaNet, iiNet (past ISP), Internode do allow this, so I'm not sure 
what you're alluding to above as it's quite feasible without involving 
any lawyers.

And yes, obviously, I read the full terms and conditions beforehand to 
establish this and, being of a paranoid bent, I also confirmed it with 
my two current ISPs.

I ditched my $20/mth Telstra permanant dialup connection in November 
2005 which, along with the phone line and call costs, was enough to fund 
a superior ADSL connection. You might therefore like to reconsider the 
future of your Telstra dialup connection unless you really need all 
those "free", Telstra-supplied public IP addresses (extremely unlikely).

-- 
Trevor Roydhouse
BJuris, LLB, LLM (UNSW)
System Developer
Australasian Legal Information Institute    Web  : www.austlii.edu.au