Re: Static IP / Hostname

1999-03-13 Thread Ray
You need to ask your ISP to put you in their DNS. When someone tries to contact a host.domain.name, their computer sends a request to their ISP's DNS server. That if that DNS knows the IP that goes with that name then it sends the IP back to the person/program that requested it. If not, it refe

RE: Static IP / Hostname

1999-03-12 Thread Pollywog
On 12-Mar-99 Brian Clark wrote: > > Greetings: > > If anyone makes it through this email, I'd be very happy if you could help. >:) > > I am a fairly new Linux user, trying to go static after many years of being > dynamic. Of course by the Subject, I'm talking about my IP address. > > When I fi

RE: Static IP / Hostname

1999-03-12 Thread Shaleh
a) be simple, leave ppp thinking you have a dynamic account, when you login you get the same IP and no one is the wiser. I have an IP (and name in DNS) assigned and you can hit me when I am logged in however you please. Even have a MX record so mail sits and waits for me. If login by dns name fa