From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 12:29:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA5137BC73 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:29:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA93525; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:28:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:28:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: David@SkytrackerCanada.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: What kind of ISP/connection am I looking for? In-Reply-To: <397C5A18.2F2677BE@www3.pacific-pages.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, David Banning wrote: > I guess I'm looking for terminology here - if I want to have my in-house > machine as the server - how do I go about getting that up and running? > What is the thing I should be asking ISP's to provide me with? One thing that comes to mind right away is that if you're running a server with a dynamic IP, you'll need some sort of dynamic DNS service. Maybe your ISP will provide that, maybe they won't. A friend of mine uses dyndns.org (or was it dyndns.com) and has ongoing hassles with hosting a domain there. Personally I've always had a static IP, and I'd look for DSL service which offered that. HTH. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message