[1793] in linux-net channel archive
Re: dynamic ip's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woods)
Fri Feb 2 08:25:10 1996
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 22:14:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Woods <cjwoods@paladin.com>
To: ecarp@netcom.com
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199602020250.VAA14295@dal1820.computek.net>
On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin wrote:
> > A name is bound to an IP address. If your IP address changes, your name
> > changes.
>
> Not necessarily. Just tell NIC that your IP address has changed.
If you're referring to the InterNIC, this has nothing at all to do with
the NIC. The NIC doesn't maintain DNS records for each IP address in use;
just "pointers" to nameservers that are authoritative for the zone in
question. To maintain a DNS name while changing your IP address, the DNS
info for that IP address would have to change. This is, for obvious
reasons, very inefficient and not feasible in most situations.
Chris Woods Systems Administrator
cjwoods@paladin.com Paladin Computing Solutions
617-273-4226 http://www.paladin.com
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