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Re: simple domain



On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:43:16 +0900, Jonathan Byrne said:

>  Well, you need your ISP's cooperation.	Usually, they won't be
very
>  interested in giving that cooperation if your DNS server doesn't have
>  a 7 x 24 Internet connection.  If you don't have 7 x 24, but you do
>  have a fixed IP address, they couldn't absolutely stop you from
>  registering your machine with Internic as the authoritative NS for
>  your
>  domain, but there is a very great deal they can do to make that work
>  poorly.  Or they can put in an access list and make it not work at
>  all.
>  Even if they don't quite go that far, they won't delegate the reverse
>  DNS
>  to you and they won't act as secondary DNS for you, so when you're
>  offline
>  you disappear.	Unless you've got a buddy who runs a DNS server
>  somewhere
>  else who will act as secondary for you.

    hehe what if i dont tell them but i know how to do it? or they should
tweak something in their servers? :)

>  And then you hope your ISP doesn't filter incoming DNS requests to
>  their
>  dialup pools.
   
    hehehe

>  As you mention, for those on dialup connections with dynamically
>  assigned IP addresses, dyndns is the only answer.  Even then, 
>  anything that depends on matching forward and reverse DNS
>  will break, since dyndns naturally can't give reverse lookup
>  for your IP address.

     i'm sick and tired of using dynamic ips i want a real ip though :(



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