Re: IP Address

At 01:19 PM 8/30/2000 +0800, Mark Lo wrote: you can't. arin are the people that you can beg with......they won't give them to you for the simple reason you need to provide them with data that proves you need them......i think that you need to show 75% of ip's taken before they'll let you buy more...but i may be mistaken. if your trying to buy from arin - you can't get one class C..you can only get /16 (4028 or so ip's)...one /16 costs about 5k a year plus routing costs..... however, your up link provider should be able to provide you with a whole class C with routing for a fee.... are you planning on running DNS? if not than you probably won't be able to get a whole C, to yourself you probably get extra ip's.....if you are planning on running DNS make sure that you have the book DNS and BIND in your hand.....and make sure that you know your TCP/IP networking too.....there's a lot of stuff that i didn't cover....but that's what they make books and HOW-TO's for :-) ~kurth

Hi, I want to open a web hosting company. I wonder where can I get a set of IP from. Like a whole Class C. Thank you Mark

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