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Reading and participating in several threads lately I have noticed numerous cases where one might need a static IP for one's ADSL connection.
Currently, in line with most international standards, surprisingly, Telkom are not leasing static IP addresses as a standard feature of the service. However, they are also not providing the opportunity to lease a permanent IP address to those users that do need it. This must change.
With the permission of the forum participants, I would like to try to lobby with Telkom on providing such a service. This will not be easy and we will probably not even receive a reply, but I feel it's worth trying anyway.
We can not expect such a service to be free, this is not the case anywhere in the world. In the UK, most "business use" ADSL packages include a permanent IP address or even a netblock. These packages are usually more expensive then home ADSL access though.
I feel that a monthly lease fee of R50 (including VAT) would be a reasonable price to lease a static IP. Obviously, for that amount, custom reverse DNS for the IP should also be offered as a service, to allow for real e-mail processing via the connection, sending and receiving.
Obviously, we would need to make some consessions. It's very well known that Telkom do not want businesses to move away from Diginet, as this would do a lot of harm to their profit margin and they are extremely greedy. An ADSL service with static IPs would intice some businesses to move, allowing them to host their web server on ADSL instead of Diginet.
If we are to stand any change at getting this, we would have to consent to Telkom filtering port 80 to the static IP machines. This means, no web servers on your ADSL line (not on port 80 anyway)
They would have to allow us to have open SMTP and SSH ports though. If we can't at least have full access to use the line for remote access and mail, I can't see what we would do with the static IPs.
Anyone in favour of this proposal should respond immediately. I think the only way to get them to notice this would be for us to co-ordinate a date upon which we can all send (independently written) e-mails to the Telkom ISP and Telkom themselves. Telkom do not read on-lin pettitions, so I'm not even going to go there.
Well placed, co-ordinated e-mailing should get somebody's attention, even if just to plant the idea with them.
Any takers?
Willie Viljoen
Web Developer
Adaptive Web Development
Reading and participating in several threads lately I have noticed numerous cases where one might need a static IP for one's ADSL connection.
Currently, in line with most international standards, surprisingly, Telkom are not leasing static IP addresses as a standard feature of the service. However, they are also not providing the opportunity to lease a permanent IP address to those users that do need it. This must change.
With the permission of the forum participants, I would like to try to lobby with Telkom on providing such a service. This will not be easy and we will probably not even receive a reply, but I feel it's worth trying anyway.
We can not expect such a service to be free, this is not the case anywhere in the world. In the UK, most "business use" ADSL packages include a permanent IP address or even a netblock. These packages are usually more expensive then home ADSL access though.
I feel that a monthly lease fee of R50 (including VAT) would be a reasonable price to lease a static IP. Obviously, for that amount, custom reverse DNS for the IP should also be offered as a service, to allow for real e-mail processing via the connection, sending and receiving.
Obviously, we would need to make some consessions. It's very well known that Telkom do not want businesses to move away from Diginet, as this would do a lot of harm to their profit margin and they are extremely greedy. An ADSL service with static IPs would intice some businesses to move, allowing them to host their web server on ADSL instead of Diginet.
If we are to stand any change at getting this, we would have to consent to Telkom filtering port 80 to the static IP machines. This means, no web servers on your ADSL line (not on port 80 anyway)
They would have to allow us to have open SMTP and SSH ports though. If we can't at least have full access to use the line for remote access and mail, I can't see what we would do with the static IPs.
Anyone in favour of this proposal should respond immediately. I think the only way to get them to notice this would be for us to co-ordinate a date upon which we can all send (independently written) e-mails to the Telkom ISP and Telkom themselves. Telkom do not read on-lin pettitions, so I'm not even going to go there.
Well placed, co-ordinated e-mailing should get somebody's attention, even if just to plant the idea with them.
Any takers?
Willie Viljoen
Web Developer
Adaptive Web Development
