On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:57:19AM +0000, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 17:09 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > Most consumer grade ISPs (cable ISPs, aDSL) use DHCP, so you have no > > guarantee you'll have the same IP address five minutes after you get it. > > Sure you do, DHCP doesn't change your IP unless you release it or you're > using an especially craptastic ISP. You might want to read up on how > DHCP works before saying something like that.
OK, so actual experience is trumped by generic references to some sort of unspecified documentation? Realize that real ISPs, notably a friend of mine's, do in fact change his IP address at least once per day. Mebbe they shouldn't. They do. > > I prefer to host my own DNS on my own server, if only to keep my memory of > > how to configure BIND relatively fresh. Does anyone know of a similar agent > > that pairs with a daemon I can run on my DNS server, to track the IP address > > of my own laptop and desktop boxes and point subdomain1.finknetwork.com and > > subdomain2.finknetwork.com to them? > > dyndns.org does that, too. I know. But as I wrote, I want to use my own server running BIND. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
