Then how do they allow for anything to get routed from their network down to your box??? I would imagine that would also make it impossible for
cookies to be left on the machine if the originating IP appears as a local-only address. Which would prevent lots of e-commerce sites and
banking services from working.
-David
Troy wrote:
> I think perhaps you missed what I was saying. :)
>
> Cable America gives you a local only IP. ie.. 192.168.0.X style
> addressing unless you pay for a static IP which they bind to the MAC
> address of your NIC. Obviously if you have a 192.168 address the rest of
> the internet cannot connect to it regardless of DNS service. =)
>
> Troy
>
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