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Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?
- From: Frank P. Tower
- Date: Wed Jun 19 17:21:42 2002
>At 04:32 PM 6/19/02, Chris Woodfield wrote:
>
>>Time Warner agreed to do so as a condition of the AOL merger. Most other
>>cable
>>companies are fighting this tooth and nail, and winning (see AT&T in
>>Portland,
>>Oregon).
>
>And in doing it, so far they seem to only be allowing the likes of
>Earthlink, not smaller providers. If anyone's got news to the contrary, I'd
>sure like to hear it.
AOL/TW has authorized a smaller ISP (around 20,000 subscribers) in our
area (central Wisconsin) to offer service over their cable network.
Last I heard they were planning on a September start date.
>>-C
>>
>> > Was there not once upon a time there was a proposal to require cable-cos
>> > to provide what would effectively be layer-2 service to any IP provider?
>> >
>> > I think that requirement still stands in Canada, but until newer
>> > standards-compliant cable modems become more common it's "hard" to do
>> > and so nobody's doing it yet (and there is some whining on both sides).
>> >
>> > --
>> > Greg A. Woods
>> >
>> > +1 416
>> 218-0098; <gwoods@acm.org>; <g.a.woods@ieee.org>; <woods@robohack.ca>
>> > Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird
>> <woods@weird.com>
>
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