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In article <3st1op$2im@News1.mcs.net>, peterw@mcs.com  (Peter W) wrote:
>In <3srptc$ri2@News1.mcs.net>, pschuman@interserv.com (Phil N. Schuman) 
writes:
>>>   peterw@mcs.com  (Peter W) writes:
>> 
>>>  MCS has been fairly good about OS/2 also, and the static IP address/real
>>>  internet domain name is a cool bonus--you could actually run a web server
>>>  off your PC "http://tarl.pr.mcs.net/" if you wanted... WWA charges extra 
for
>>>  static IP and they don't sound too crazy about doing it, either.
>>
>>what did you mean about the "real internet domain name"?
>>Phil - 
>>
>
>At the risk of sounding like an ad for mcs, it means that if I installed a 
server
>on my account (say, an httpd server for web pages) you could request 
>    http://peterw.pr.mcs.net/
>and the DNS would point to me, and my server would give you my index.html. 
>
>The static IP and DNS entry go hand-in-hand. If you get a dynamic IP like
>WWA favors, you'd have to tell people to use http://127.0.0.1/ or whatever
>your IP was for that dial-in... It means I could use an ftp daemon to allow
>authorized users access to some of my files without uploading to my puny
>10 Mb shell directory... etc, etc. Of course the performance hit and 200 
hr/"no
>camping" policy make this impractical for anything but occasional/
>experimental use.
>
>-Peter
>
>PS. Follow-ups to chi.internet, please.
>

I believe Karl has stated that even part time, this is not acceptable 
(although it would be difficult for him to enforce :)... but I believe he has 
specified that running servers from your account are not acceptable ... 



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