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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

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