Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:14:49 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Message-ID: <199808100014.MAA08319@terminator2.xtra.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <19980810082552.J11095@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199808092015.IAA20066@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 08:15:49AM %2B1200
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On 10 Aug 98, at 8:25, Greg Lehey wrote: > > A curly one: My connection may be permanent. But my IP is not. It's > > assigned via DHCP. There must be some mechanism for my ISP to update > > the DNS dynamically. > > Ugh. Can you get them to change that? Or to route an IP block? No. I just tried. ADSL is on a trial basis. They aren't willing to get into static IPs now. Mind you, they are a telco. > Not really. But dynamically assigned IPs are a work of > Bill^H^H^H^Hthe devil. Yeah, well, that's what I got in the meantime. I think I'll give up on this idea. I think my next course of action is to find out how I can get my mail from my ISP's pop3 server into my mail server. ideas? -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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