Re: PPP with a dynamic address?
On 19 Jun, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> My ppp connection is to an ISP that is willing to provide me with a
> "static" IP address, allowing me to be the same address every time I
> connect.
> I have been asked by a friend to help set up his machine for ppp, but his
> ISP will only provide a "dynamic" IP address. I am a bit confused about
> how to deal with the entry in /etc/hosts.
Here's my hosts file.
---
127.0.0.1 localhost
0.0.0.0 elan.dlcwest.com elan
---
The ip for elan.dlcwest.com (my machine) gets updated internally each
time I logon if it is set to 0.0.0.0 here.
Note, elan is just the name I gave to my computer. My ISP has no idea
I'm using its domain with elan. But it does not matter. I used to
have it set the uni's domain instead of my isp's and it worked fine.
Hope this helps. I don't know of anything else that would be different.
Jason
jason@dlcwest.com
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