Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:34:46 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: Sandip Srivastava <ssriva1@alumni.umbc.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need Networking Help Message-ID: <00031919364100.01387@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.1000319215056.27944A-100000@alumni.umbc.edu> References: <Pine.SGI.3.96.1000319215056.27944A-100000@alumni.umbc.edu>
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Sandip Srivastava wrote: > I have a stand-alone system that connects only occasionally to the > internet via a dial-up ppp connection. The ISP that I connect to > dynamically assigns my system an IP address and a FQDN. > > There are two things I would like done. I don't know if they are possible > with the way things currently are. First I would like to run a nameserver > on my system. The second I would like is for people to be able to access > my system by a FQDN instead of an IP address. I have called my system the > following: > > atlantic.srivastava.com > > If they can't access my system by the above name, is it possible for my > system to take the name the ISP assigns me while I'm connected to the > internet? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > -Sandip I remember reading quite a while back that there is an internet company that can give dns service to sites with dynamic ip's. Don't remember now who it is, but you might try running a search on the net. -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter: Where the hell am I? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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