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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Adam L. Simpson wrote:

> I am trying to dial out via modem so that others can access my FBSD box
> thru telnet.  When I get connected to my ISP, I get a Dynamic IP assigned.
> When I try to telnet to this number, it times out.  What else would I have
> to do on my end to allow the traffic to come thru to the box if one were to
> telnet to the Dynamic IP Assigned by the ISP?

works for me! :)

what i'd like to know is:

why is it, if you have host.conf set up to use bind first,
"telnet alphabetic.name.net" uses /etc/hosts info,
instead of using bind to get your dynamically allocated address?
(when trying to telnet to yourself).
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