mbpatpas@pacbell.net.invalid (Mike Preston) wrote:
>On 29 Sep 2005 13:13:52 +1200, Llanzlan Klazmon
><Klazmon@llurdiaxorb.govt> wrote:

>>>>Your ISP is assigning your Internet IP Address - You need a static
>>>>address if you are:
>>>>Hosting a mailserver
>>>>Hosting a website
>>>>Providing Dialin Access (VPN)
>>>
>>> No, you don't. no-ip, dyndns and similar services allow you to do all
>>> of the above with dynamic IPs.
>>
>>True but that's a bit of a kludge.
>
>Now that I agree with. Definitely a bit of a kludge.

Can't agree with that. It works quite well, and the appearance
of that functionality was a *huge* relief.

Remember when changing anything with your DNS, unless you were
far enough up the food chain to be running your own DNS server
for the entire Internet (not just your own network), meant that
changing anything took a *week* to be effective? That was true
even for ISP's, and was a real pain.

Now, my domain resolves to whatever I want to it, and can change
in less than two minutes (and it will take me longer than that
to remember how to do it manually).

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Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com