On 27 Oct 2002, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > I'd be interested in suggestions for a good way of choosing a domainname
> > for a dialup host.
> Use anything you want (ideally *.example.com)
(Slaps forehead). Of course. I wanted a name to go with my RFC1918 IP
address; and something.example.com is clearly the solution.
Thanks.
> Given something as semi-permanent as a dialup, using dynamic DNS to
> receive mail on it is not a good idea maybe. Perhaps it is a better
> idea on long lease DHCP (such as ADSL and cablemodem pools).
Agreed. I didn't really want the MTA to listen to the internet;
it is just that unix systems assume one is running to handle system
reports, etc.
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