Re: Static IP / Hostname
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 refers the request upstream and this continues
until a DNS server is found that either knows the address or knows of a
specific DNS server that has that information. In your case that would be
your ISP's DNS server. Currently your ISP probably has all of it's dial up
line assigned to names like dial-up-1.portmaster1.yourisp.com or something
similar. You can see what it is currently set at by doing a nslookup of
your.ip.address but you should do that from some other machine.
--
Ray
nmos@sonictech.net
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