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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>
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To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>
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Subject: Re: DNS
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Duke Normandin wrote:
> 
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 06:28:16AM -0700, Linh Pham wrote:
> > On 2001-05-24, Lee Mark Mercado scribbled:
> >
> > # I was wondering how i could make my myowndomain.com to show up as my host
> > # address instead of what my ISP gave me (myISPdomain.com) ?
> >
> > What you need to do is contact your ISP and ask them if they can change
> > the reverse DNS lookups for your IP addresses to
> > whatever.myowndomain.com
> >
> > --
> > Linh Pham
> 
> If a person is assigned a Dyn.IP -- is this still possible? My gut
> feeling says -- nyet ;)

Not really practical, and I doubt your ISP would comply. If you're only
worried about the local machine thinking it is myowndomain.com you can
set the hostname and entries in /etc/hosts and it will take care of
that. Other machines doing reverse DNS will still see myISPdomain.com
though.

-Bill

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