From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 17:16:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14319 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 17:16:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from terminator2.xtra.co.nz (terminator2.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14280 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 17:16:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by terminator2.xtra.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA08319; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:14:06 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808100014.MAA08319@terminator2.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Greg Lehey Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:14:49 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980810082552.J11095@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199808092015.IAA20066@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 08:15:49AM +1200 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 Aug 98, at 8:25, Greg Lehey wrote: > > A curly one: My connection may be permanent. But my IP is not. It's > > assigned via DHCP. There must be some mechanism for my ISP to update > > the DNS dynamically. > > Ugh. Can you get them to change that? Or to route an IP block? No. I just tried. ADSL is on a trial basis. They aren't willing to get into static IPs now. Mind you, they are a telco. > Not really. But dynamically assigned IPs are a work of > Bill^H^H^H^Hthe devil. Yeah, well, that's what I got in the meantime. I think I'll give up on this idea. I think my next course of action is to find out how I can get my mail from my ISP's pop3 server into my mail server. ideas? -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message