Hello, I hope this is the right list for my question, otherwise please sent me a notice. I contacted my ISP (=Online in Belgium) for 4 IP addresses. Some months ago we got one fixed IP, but we need some more now. The 'commercial manager' of my ISP responded that I have to pay 3000Bfr/year (this is approx. 80$/year) for one IP. It already sounded very weird to me that they charged that fee for non-commercial groups like us, so I wondered if this is 1) legally 2) too much 3) fraud I can totally agree if they ask a one-time setup (registration cost) and perhaps some little annual costs, but this is just too much for us IMHO. Another thing I'd like to ask about: Everytime I want to order some new IP-addresses, my ISP says that they'll also have to change my old fixed IP's into new ones. Is this just a normal procedure, or is this some kind of backdoor to fraud? How can I check that my ISP registered those IP's under my name and contact, and not under their's? Best regards, Koen Breugelmans, sysadmin <kbr@mira.net.dhis.org> Patrick Weckhuyzen, informaticacoordinator <pweckhuyzen@online.be> Hilde Van Roey, informaticaverantwoordelijke <hvanroey@online.be> -- [-=====================================================-] | '^' Herr Pirre <kbr@mira.net.dhis.org> | | (O,0) Feasting on the blood of the insane, | | ( ) here's another tale of the fucking deranged | [-=="="================================================-] public PGP-key at http://www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~m9920190/koen.asc