Re: [nznog] How many ISP's charge their customers to query DNS?

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Joe Abley wrote:

On 9 Feb 2005, at 16:48, Chris Hodgetts wrote:

So, you have bought some kind of internet access service which charges for traffic by the byte, and you are surprised when traffic gets charged by the byte? Or you think udp/53 traffic should be special for some reason?

Traditionally ISPs don't charge for traffic on their own networks. Not even back in the day of international being billed at several dollars a meg was I billed for mail and DNS traffic within my ISP. -- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer."