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HelloRoot@lemy.lol 3 days agoI’ve never heard of an ISP that gives IPs for 0$. You get one through a subscribtion, so it is a rent.
Comment on LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords
HelloRoot@lemy.lol 3 days agoI’ve never heard of an ISP that gives IPs for 0$. You get one through a subscribtion, so it is a rent.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
You pay for internet service, and some do that by providing leases on publicly accessible IPs, and some do that by providing internal IPs and routing things themselves. Some block specific incoming ports (often anything other than 80 and 443), whereas others block nothing. Most services offer an extra “static IP” service that gives you a fixed publicly accessible IP.
Source: I had the former for years and now I’m stuck with the latter.
HelloRoot@lemy.lol 3 days ago
I know all that and none of it contradicts what I said.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Are you claiming that paying for internet service is “paying for an IP”? If so, that’s a really pedantic point.
pirat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s what it seems like to me as well, and I just tried to be helpful and informative, not argue with them about how something that’s necessarily included by default is obviously contained in the price…
HelloRoot@lemy.lol 3 days ago
Yes and yes