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Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP

Posted by simoniker on from the snatch-and-grab dept.

Jeremy Kister writes "According to a post on the North American Network Operators Group mailing-list, The State of New Jersey has issued a temporary restraining order, allowing a former customer of Net Access Corporation (NAC) to take non-portable IP Address space (issued from ARIN), away from NAC." The post argues: "This is a matter is of great importance to the entire Internet community. This type of precedent is very dangerous. If this ruling is upheld it has the potential to disrupt routing throughout the Internet, and change practices of business for any Internet Service Provider."

5 of 802 comments (clear)

  1. Cool! by SpanishInquisition · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can be banned from Slashdot wherever I go!

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    Je t'aime Stéphanie
    1. Re:Cool! by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yep!

      i find it funny when im banned... but can still use my mod points...

      sucks that so many people come through the same gateway. someone in this office must belong to the GNAA..... i have my suspicions....

    2. Re:Cool! by Ignignot · · Score: 5, Funny

      I too, have been "forced" to post /. stories from work. It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a shiftless slacker - ack here comes my boss!

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      I submitted this story last night, and it didn't get posted.
  2. Re:Ouch... Keep your IP? by freeduke · · Score: 5, Funny
    Everytime I buy a new computer, I sue the NIC manufacturer to give me the same MAC address as my old one.

    When rules are for the others, is there any rule left?

  3. IP and phone numbers by tod_miller · · Score: 5, Funny

    It isn't really that crazy.

    IP addresses are like phone numbers. Except on the other end, there can be anything. In fact the Internet used to run by dialing the exact computer you wanted to talk to didn't it? Or was that pre-Internet? I am too young to remember :-)

    I say we hope he is a bit slow, and let him keep 1 class B and on class D address, two for the price of one.

    May I recommend 192.168.*.* and 127.0.0.1

    He can have them! :-)

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    #hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com