Subject: Re: dynamic dns service
From: Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu)
Date: Sat Jun 16 2001 - 05:35:47 MDT
You could also just ping the IP address you are randomly given.
--- Sean
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, John M. Wright wrote:
> Carolyn,
>
> If you go to www.dyndns.org (or a number of other dynamic
> dns services), you can get a name like stavia.dnsalias.org,
> or stavia.dyndns.net. or something similar. No charge for
> this from dyndns.org or several others, although they will
> gently ask for a donation.
>
> John Wright
> jwright@uscd.edu
>
> > Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:35:00 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Carolyn Jean Fairman <cfairman@Stanford.EDU>
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Subject: Newbie questions
> >
> >
> > Here's a break from talking about 2.0 if anyone would pleas help.
> >
> > I changed the hostname and that all seemed to work except that I don't
> > really know where I am -- I use DSL and get some random IP address.
> > So if my machine is now named stavia what is the complete address of
> > it should I want to ping it? Does the text name not resolve since I
> > don't own the domain the map to the IP address?
> >
> > I am using Roaring Penguin's pppoe, so can I get the HOSTIP or
> > something set to what IP they give me?
> >
> (snip)
>
>
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