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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Idea for Talk to PPP host Date: 8 Jul 1995 00:12:10 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3tkigq$dv0@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3te4fb$mt@news.simplex.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3te4fb$mt@news.simplex.nl>, Rob Simons <rob@Simplex.simplex.nl> wrote: >If the talk daemon could be modified so when a talk is directed to >user@domain.net, it checks if it's a PPP host, looks up it's ip & name, >and directs the talk to user@<dynamic_ip_name>.domain.net Huh? This is totally unnecessary. If you log in to your ISP and get a dynamic IP address assigned then they should also modify their DNS information accordingly for the duration of the session. That's what BIND is for, after all - to decouple the name from the IP address. Needless to say, your ISP also wants to set things up so that nobody is doing secondary name service for the dynamic address pool - it would take the changes too long to propagate otherwise. Jordan