Large ISPs doing NAT?

Dan Hollis goemon at anime.net
Thu May 2 23:56:40 UTC 2002


On Thu, 2 May 2002, Simon Higgs wrote:
> At 01:20 AM 5/2/2002 -0700, Scott Francis wrote:
> >The average customer buying a "web-enabled" phone doesn't need a
> >publicly-routeable IP. I challenge anybody to demonstrate why a cell phone
> >needs a public IP. It's a PHONE, not a server.
> I'm not buying a phone I can't run ssh from. End of story. My current phone 
> does all that and more. Why step back into the dark ages of analog-type 
> services?

The average customer doesn't even know what telnet is, let alone ssh.
All they care about is browsing pr0n.

-Dan
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