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03-06-2004, 03:12 PM
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Wrench Bender
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Is your IP address REALLY from your ISP?
As many of you have seen that several people here have the little IP address grabber in their sig. Well, was looking at a thread and one showed I was 199.xxx.xxx.xx at mindspring.com/ relogged on and got 67.xx.xxx.xx at level3.net. Neither of these is my ISP. So, the question is, do ISPs lease access points from other ISPs and call it their own?
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03-06-2004, 04:10 PM
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You bet. I checked your email addy, your ISP has none of their own equipment, they are a virtual ISP, everything is outsourced including mail servers. You will also see them using UUnet. I used to have an ISP like that called Surfree (no, it wasn't free). They used Level3, UUnet, PSInet, and Navipath - and mail was outsourced to Critical Path.
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03-06-2004, 04:19 PM
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Wrench Bender
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Thanks, glc. That explains alot of the blocked stuff in my Zone Alarm log.
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