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Re: How can I pick a domain name?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Weible)
Tue Nov 26 22:16:09 1996
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 20:12:39 -0700 (MST)
From: Todd Weible <toddw@cyberhighway.net>
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Allen Francom wrote:
[snip]
> I believe that if your ISP assigns dynamic IP addresses for you when you
> call in, you will not be able to "serve" hardly any of the goodies like
> sendmail, telnet, http, etc.,
I telnet into my system, and could http if I wished. I also use sendmail.
:)
>
> Without a static IP address machines trying to connect to your host will
> not be able to unless YOU tell them what YOUR CURRENT IP Address is for
> the next few minutes.
Correct.
>
> In other words, you're going to end up as a client system, capable
> perhaps of surfing and telnetting to other systems.
>
> The fully qualified domain name I guess is okay for you to set up
> since it won't really matter to anyone but you on that machine.
> ( It's not like even you are going to use it for anything without
> real IP addresses... )
>
> So there's really two ways to exist on the Internet, as a client,
> as a server, or perhaps a combination of the two.
>
> Servers, always, as far as I know, have statically assigned IP addresses.
>
Only trouble here is that I would probably use a different definition of
server than you. I can telnet from anywhere into my internet provider and
check the IP on my dynamic account. Then I can telnet into it. I would
consider this to then be a server with a dynamic address.
Just wanted to update a little, good day!
Todd
toddw@cyberhighway.net
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