[79776] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Thu Apr 14 19:20:10 2005
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:16:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@internap.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0504141305001.2079@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>>
>> 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.
Which doesn't work very well when your provider cannot keep a DNS server
up for 10 minutes at a time. See the beginning of this thread.
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