From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 20:36:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA15573 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 20:36:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA15480 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 20:35:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA12242; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:05:06 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980709130502.N15625@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:05:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: spork , JGarcia Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: info for ISP References: <35A2C027.92FF629E@brokersys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from spork on Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 11:29:46PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 8 July 1998 at 23:29:46 -0400, spork wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, JGarcia wrote: > >> my internet provider is very quiet about some of the information they >> want to give me. What do I need beside my 2 DNS addresses, that they >> provide with win95 setup? and the phone number to dialup with.? > > You've got it all except for the news host, mail host, and pop host. I > don't suggest trying to hardcode the other end of the link or your own > address. I do, at least your own address. But you'll have difficulty finding an ISP who will do it for you. > Your address is most likely dynamically assigned when you dial > in, and the ISP side will change depending on what term server you land on > when you dial. One of the biggest problems we have with supporting unix > accounts is people that insist on hardcoding the "ISP side" of the link > even though they only have a one in seven chance of getting the same > address each time... The other end of the link is of almost no importance on a PPP link. But there are good reasons to want to have your own IP address (one of them is that it looks more professional to have a message come from, say, freebie.lemis.com than ip133.lnk.telstra.net). It is also imperative if you want to be able to hang up the phone line, redial and still have your long-standing connections work. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message