Board:   [fsxNet] Retro Computing
Subject: Re: old inet = your own DNS?
From:    Nightfox (21:1/137)
Date:    Mon Oct 26, 2026 15:58

  Re: Re: old inet = your own DNS?
  By: phigan to Nightfox on Mon Oct 26 2026 06:09 pm

 >> computers, and he said the ISP
 >> started charging him per computer

 ph> If you don't put the computers behind a router, they would get public IP
 ph> addresses, which the ISP has a limited number of. It would make sense for
 ph> them to charge by IP being used ;).

That makes sense to me.  Back then, I figured that's what ISPs wanted customers to do, in order to make more money.

Nightfox
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