>Many ISPs routinely use DHCP as an means to degrade their customers' >address stability, forcing them change addresses as often as once a day, >in order to prevent their customers from running certain kinds of >applications. Yeah, and others do the same thing by, say, having their firewalls block incoming connections to port 80. That doesn't mean that firewalls shouldn't exist. /===============================================================\ |John Stracke |Principal Engineer | |jstracke@incentivesystems.com |Incentive Systems, Inc. | |http://www.incentivesystems.com |My opinions are my own. | |===============================================================| |"I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word| |processor." -- Neal Stephenson | \===============================================================/