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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.ac.net!news.serv.net!not-for-mail From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP Connection for Dynamic IP Date: 5 May 1996 02:38:28 -0700 Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4mhsuk$e0q@itchy.serv.net> References: <318A0633.41C67EA6@ix.netcom.com> <4mgimi$mkb@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: itchy.serv.net Jianyu Wang <jianyu@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > It doesn't seem there is DNS to map my hostname to IP address. Netcom > uses dynamic IP addresses. Right now I am not running named daemon. > Can anyone give me advice on how to setup this hostname mapping? Any > help will be appreciated. You could in theory register a domain name, set the TTL to 0 and modify the DNS record automatically when you got the dynamic assignment. But it would be much easier to get a static IP#. Go through a smaller local provider. -- Sean T. Lamont, President / CEO, Abstract Software (ServNet) - Internet access * WWW hosting * TCP/IP * UNIX * NEXTSTEP * WWW Development - email: lamont@abstractsoft.com WWW: http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson