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echo: net_dev
to: Johannes Lundberg
from: mark lewis
date: 2002-07-22 23:44:02
subject: proposed new nodelist [2]

ml>> that will likely remain as many are on dialup connections
 ml>> and unless fidonet also sets up a ddns, there's few ways
 ml>> for one to have a static domain name for a dynamic dialup...

 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.

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

)\/(ark

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