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echo: net_dev
to: Johannes Lundberg
from: mark lewis
date: 2002-09-18 00:28:42
subject: proposed new nodelist [2]

JL>> You can point your fidonet.net (or whatever) to your selected
 JL>> DynDNS-provider with a CNAME. All DNS-resolvers follow CNAMEs
 JL>> until they find an A-record, so dynamic IPs and dialups is not
 JL>> a problem, if you don't mind using existing DynDNS-providers.

 ml>> true... very true... until you run into some system that
 ml>> insists on IP number instead of domain name... i'm thinking of
 ml>> a situation where one wants to go the other way...

 JL> I don't get your point here about situations where one would
 JL> want to go the other way around. Please explain. :)

i believe that i was thinking of rDNS... my system currently has f4 (four)
valid rDNS entries... some software only gets the first one and if it
doesn't match what they are expecting, out ya go...

)\/(ark

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