use a domain in an A record?

[Simon Waters]

"Jeffrey J. Bacon" wrote:
> 
> This way, all loookups for
> breakfast.ca will get forwarded to my comupter.  However I have a mail server,
> ftp etc. set up on mail. ftp. etc... that I want to resolve.

Since your ISP supplies a valid canonical domain name, being a
mail server is just a case of pointing the MX record for the
domain at the canonical name.

Other services present more of a problem, and I think Cricket's
suggestion of DDNS is the clean solution.