[79717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Apr 14 13:08:17 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:07:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
Cc: Brandon Ross <bross@internap.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0504141437310.29107@sharpie.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Brandon Ross wrote:
> > ;-) Seriously, though, some benefits can be imagined, like being able to
> > use the same DNS server on my laptop no matter where in the world I plug
> > in.
>
> people do that today.... unforunately they do it with 198.6.1.1 :(
Its called DHCP/PPP, both will auto-magically configure the correct DNS
for your current network connection. If your laptop changes IP addresses,
it should get new network configuration details for the current network.
