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Re: Static/Dynamic Debate Was: Need help to connect to ISP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin)
Sat Feb 3 15:22:40 1996
From: "Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: erich@basenet.com (Eric Hester)
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 11:21:22 -0600 (CST)
Cc: ecarp@netcom.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199602031631.LAA12565@basenet.basenet.com> from "Eric Hester" at Feb 3, 96 11:31:07 am
Reply-To: ecarp@netcom.com
> At 10:07 AM 2/3/96 -0600, you wrote:
> >Untrue. Static IPs are necessary under the following conditions:
> >
> > 1. You want to let other people use services that you offer
> > on your box, such as anonymous FTP or telnet. In this
> > case, using a dynamic IP is next to useless.
>
> how so? if they have domain names (i.e. ppp01.basenet.com, ppp02, ppp03,
> etc), why would they be useless? I dont understand your reasoning. how can a
If I am advertising to the outside world that my services reside on
ppp01.basenet.com, and the connection drops, am I guaranteed that I will
get ppp01.basenet.com the next time around? Think about it.
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