On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 07:01:57PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > However, I now have a hack in place to fix it. Check out the 'dhis' package > > in potato (it compiles easily for Slink if you don't have potato)--it's a free > > service that effectively gives you a static hostname on a dynamic IP address. > > It also does mail spooling but I don't use it so I can't say how useful it is. > > It doesn't help (enough) because reverse-DNS lookups go back to your ISP > provided dynamic name and address. A lot of mail systems will reject you > based on this (your claimed name doesn't match your reverse-DNS name). If your claimed name actually resolves to your real IP, it should be accepted. =p Granted not everyone does that---some IP's don't resolve. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The X Window System: The standard UNIX graphical environment. With Linux, this is usually XFree86 (http://www.xfree86.org). You may call it X, XFree, the X Window System, XF86, or a host of other things. Call it 'XWindows' and someone will smack you and you will have deserved it.
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