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On 19/01/2012 05:38, Simon Waters wrote:
I was on Demon back in the mid-late 90s and had a subdomain.. it was standard back then for them.. dynamic IP address though. I expect some ISPs still do provide the service, not that I can think who off the top of my head :)On 19/01/12 04:27, Kai Hendry wrote:At risk of coming across as an idiot in public, I was wondering why don't ISPs don't automatically offer Dynamic DNS services to their users?Because it is easier to offer static IPs to the few that want it?But why isn't it more mainstream than that?Probably bandwidth, reliability and prevalence of NAT/PAT Demon use to do something like this with dial but I think they gave static IP addresses.
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