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From: jackhamr@RTD.COM (Christopher Wolff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: User PPP Problems
Date: 23 Feb 1996 00:00:30 GMT
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I'm running FreeBSD 2.1 on a pentium based PC with 16MB RAM and trying to 
use User PPP to connect to the net.  I'm having a problem getting my 
dynamically assigned ip address to resolve over to my hostname.  Is there 
a way to get this to work or should i try kernel PPP with my dynamic IP?

I would greatly appreciate any help anyone can offer...It seems like 
there must be a string i can put in place of an assigned ip address in 
/etc/hosts.  Currently all i have in there is 127.0.0.1 localhost and 
IFCONFIG goes nuts.

Christopher