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To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Dynamic IP Site Pointers 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jan 96 16:42:39 PST."
             <199601081542.QAA02409@vector.jhs.local> 
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 96 18:07:46 PST
From: Ben Jackson <bjj@sequent.com>
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In message <199601081542.QAA02409@vector.jhs.local> , you wrote:
> The Problem:
>   I, like many other internet users, access freefall & other hosts via an
>   ISP that uses dynamic IP (ie assigns me a `for this connection only' 
>   variant IP number )

How about a DNS A record with a small/zero TTL?  Then you're just
jhs.freebsd.org.  You could even redirect it to freefall when you're
offline if that makes sense (for www service etc).

--Ben