On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 06:26 PM, Bryce C wrote:
> QUOTE
> * In point of fact, you do get name, but that name includes the IP
> address so that it is worthless. I believe this also prevents you from
> using a service like dyndns.org
> ENDOQUOTE
> It does? That's news to me because I was just dialed up to anther ISP
> and using myvnc.com's services to get in to my appropriately firewalled
> computer, albeit not on port 80 but that's ok with me.
You are, of course, correct. I was quickly skimming through the
dyndns.org web site and found the following:
My IP currently resolves to some name provided by my ISP. Can I change
that to my dyndns.org host/domain?
No, this is not possible due to the nature of the DNS system and the
way reverse DNS resolution works. If your IP is static or mostly
static, you could ask your ISP to change your reverse DNS lookup, but
there is nothing we can do to change it.
I misinterpreted that to mean that they wouldn't allow you to use the
service. I gracefully back out of the statement. :-)
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