Newbie seeking advice for tech support issue.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a6trpa$iek at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Wes Groleau  <wesgroleau at despammed.com> wrote:
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>> It sounds like you're trying to implement a dynamic DNS service.  Why don't
>> you just make use of one of the existing services, like dyndns.org?
>
>Also, I don't think I was intending to run a name server myself,
>if that's what you mean.  Since my address changes every connection
>as well, nobody would know where to find it.  But since I am just
>starting to learn about DNS, perhaps that was what I meant.

If you're not planning to run the nameserver, how were you planning on
letting the user update the DNS themselves?  ISPs don't typically allow
their customers to make dynamic DNS changes like you proposed.  If they do
dynamic DNS at all, it's usually done automatically by the DHCP server;
when it assigns an address to the customer, it sends an update message to
the DNS server.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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