From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 18:46:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA05637 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:46:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA05632 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:46:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00273; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 18:46:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jason Parsons cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dynamic ip? In-Reply-To: <199608252232.SAA29608@nova.dreamscape.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Please wrap your lines about column 72. Thanks. On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Jason Parsons wrote: > I have heard that there is a way to register a system name on a dynamic > ip. I was wondering if you know anything about that. For instance, my > machine name is "Saffron" and I am on dreamscape.com. I dialup and > login, with dreamscape's server assigning me an ip. Is there a way so > that while I am logged in, that ip will be addressable as > saffron.dreamscape.com??? Thanks in advance for any insight. I know > very little about the hierarchy or name registration. This requires either your ISP (dreamscape) to wire down your IP somehow (using their PPP or SLIP config) or use Dynamic DNS. The only DDNS implementation I know of is for OS/2. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major