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An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides access to the Internet.

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides access to the Internet.

Internet service providers can be either community-owned and non-profit, or privately owned and for-profit.

Access ISPs directly connect clients to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and other people (colocation). Transit ISPs provide large amounts of bandwidth for connecting hosting ISPs to access ISPs.

There are 3 tiers:

  • Tier 1: a tier 1 network is one that can reach every other network on the Internet without purchasing IP transit or paying settlements.
  • Tier 2: a tier that can access some part of the network without paying transit
  • Tier 3: only uses transit

Source wikipedia

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DNS forwarding or root hints

The author of Best practices for DNS forwarding [petri.com] recommends using the ISP's DNS servers as forwarders instead of doing the recursive lookups yourself, the main reason being performance. This makes sense as you're only doing one query,…
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IPv6 - How does my ISP know how to route traffic to my delegated subnet?

My question is somewhat related to this question: What ISP needs to provide in order to route native IPv6 /56 range to several VLANs Where that question focused on the private side of a router, my question focuses on the public side and is related…
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DDoS block source IP at ISP

During a DDoS attack even when you successfully stop it at your datacenter the link between you and your ISP will still be saturated and traffic brought to a halt. In this case what is the best way to communicate to the ISP to block the source IP…
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Does the SOA serial have importance when it comes to ISP caching nameservers?

Lets say I forget to update the SOA serial when updating the zonefile. Of course, this means any slaves will not sync to the master because it thinks no change has been done. The question I have, is, does SOA serial have any effect on ISP caching…
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How to get around Double NAT from the ISP?

I have a client located in a rural area where they are using the ISP Xplornet, it's a wireless/satellite type of internet connection. After initial setup, We where able to have access to the site remotely, but it was extremely slow. So the client…
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email (Exchange) issues due to lack of RDNS

I'm one of the network operations leads for an ISP and one of our business customers is complaining his emails won't work due to our lack of a DNS server. We opted not to stand up DNS since many other companies with a much larger amount of resources…
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Best solution for Multi-WAN failover (inside & out)?

Looking for a way to setup 2 ISPs in failover mode, for both incoming & outgoing traffic, for our small (<100 devices) network. The leading contender for now seems to be the Peplink Balance 310. However, a reseller I spoke with said it's great for…
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Requests take a really long time from certain ISP

We have an Apache server with PHP running on a virtual machine. Document roots are inside the users' home folders (/home/users/{first letter}/{username}/), and /home/users/ is mounted over NFS. It appears that there's something strange going on.…
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Can my ISP know that I am connected through a VPN?

I have a general understanding of VPNs and how they work. However, I am not sure of how the initial request is seen by my ISP? For example say I am connected to an OpenVPN provider, what happens when I open my browser and type www.yahoo.com Does it…
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How do I get around restrictive email policies by ISP?

Apparently we've been restricted (though packet filtering) to some arbitrarily small and untenable number of emails a day by some bankrupt ISP (and they say that's how it's always been chortle). We've been using our own mail server for the last 15…
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business-class fiber to the home

Suppose you're some sort of crazy nerd fellow and you live in an area that's absolutely covered in fiber optics and network facilities. What kind of cost / infrastructure would be needed to hook in somewhere and get you're internet connection…
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Calculating and billing IP multicast usage on the Internet

I've been searching for the reasons why IP multicast isn't widely supported on the Public Internet, and a commonly-cited reason is the difficulty ISPs have in tracking Multicast usage for later billing. Given this difficulty, since ISPs control the…
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My static ips are inaccessible only from CenturyLink users across all ports

The Problem: How do you diagnose an ISP specific connectivity problem? I host a few sites on local machine. I pay for a business class account with Centurylink and have a lot of 5 static ips. The sites are accessible from anywhere in the world…
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Authentication and logging of users for a Wireless ISP?

I have to upgrade a Wireless ISP's (WISP) network. Their current setup consists of a router (Mikrotik RouterBoard 1100AHx2), Ubiquiti Rockets (with sector antennas) for clients, and Ubiquiti NanoStations for client CPEs. Their security consists of…
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Name Server change & propagation works partially : Success for US and fail for India

Our domain is hosted with Enom. DNS records are managed under Enom's reseller for India called Pugmarks. We want to switch DNS record management service from Enom/Reseller over to AWS Route53, however, retaining Enom as the domain registrar. TTL for…
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