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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?
Date: 20 Sep 1996 23:23:26 -0500
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In article <slrn546cbc.c5o.cbbrowne@wolfe.brownes.org>,
Christopher B. Browne <cbbrowne@unicomp.net> wrote:
>
>Dumb question:
>- If I'm connecting through an ISP, is it guaranteed that I will have a
>DNS record?

Only if the ISP has a clue...

>I'm not aware that my ISP puts an entry into their DNS tables when I log in.
>They may, but if they don't...

It doesn't matter whether you are logged in or not, all they have to
do is provide some (any) name for every IP number they provide and
make sure the forward and reverse lookups match.  

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com