On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:57:12 +0000 Tony Finch <dot@???> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:57:22PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> >
> > Sorry if I sound dense, but given that example.com is not routable
> over the
> > 'net, where does the question of uniqueness of invented names come
> into the
> > picture?
> Since example.com is just a domain name, routing is irrelevant.
i probably missed where someone undoubtedly pointed this out earlier -- but
for systems with dynamically assigned IPs, i think that a service like
dyndns.org seems to be the way to go. i just turned it up for my cable
modem, and i'll likely be using it to solve a dynamic dns problem for
a project i'm doing for a client right now.
you're still not going to get matching reverse lookups for destination
sites with particularly anal MTA configurations, but that seems to be
pretty much a lost cause. i don't even have the beginnings of an answer
for that.
richard
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