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From: jcostom@shaft.sjis.com (Jason Costomiris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 21 Sep 1996 17:50:10 GMT
Organization: Friends of Richard Roundtree
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On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 19:06:04 -0500, Christopher B. Browne <cbbrowne@wolfe.brownes.org> wrote:
: Dumb question:
: - If I'm connecting through an ISP, is it guaranteed that I will have a
: DNS record?
:
: I'm not aware that my ISP puts an entry into their DNS tables when I log in.
: They may, but if they don't...
It's not a guarantee, but if the ISP has a clue, they have DNS entries
for stuff like that. If you have a static IP address, it might look
something like yourname.isp.net. However, if your ISP uses dynamic IPs
(as most do.. They assign one IP per modem, so what IP you get depends
on which modem you hit), you will probably get something like
noc-ppp23.isp.net (for ex). It's not something that happens when you log
in either, it's done beforehand...
--
Jason Costomiris jcostom@sjis.com http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom/
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