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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP Connection for Dynamic IP Date: 4 May 1996 21:37:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4mgimi$mkb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <318A0633.41C67EA6@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Jianyu Wang <jianyu@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > $ telnet myPC.ix.netcom.com I get unknown host. > $ telnet myPC IP Address I can login. > > It doesn't seem there is DNS to map my hostname to IP address. Netcom > uses dynamic IP addresses. Right now I am not running named daemon. > Can anyone give me advice on how to setup this hostname mapping? Any > help will be appreciated. You can't. You have to chose a provider that will install a permanent hostname for you. ISPs like Netcom are not targeted for sites who wanna run _servers_ (not even telnet servers). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)