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I was wondering, if there was such a technique to like say assign a static
hostname while i'm using a dynamic address.  Like for example,
eric.ispprovider.com instead of having dial***.ispprovider.com everytime
being different.

I was talking with the ISP sysop and he was like he has sceen it before
but doesn't know how to do it or who to talk to.  If y'all could help I
would be grateful.

 Eric J. Brockman

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Also, there are some domain name services that will give you a shared
domain that can adapt to your dynamic IP. I don't know about getting a
static hostname on your ISP's domain, tho.

Quote:>Here is a link to a FAQ that will interest you.
>ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Dynamic-IP-Hacks

Quote:>Also, there are some domain name services that will give you a shared
>domain that can adapt to your dynamic IP. I don't know about getting a
>static hostname on your ISP's domain, tho.

Cameron

http://www.dhs.com is a ressurection of some projects by the same
people that brought Monolith(ml.org) up until its death.

Err, as for that http://yourname.yourprovider.com stuff.. try virtual hosting
for http... Otherwise, you'd be best to get chummy with someone who
owns/operates a nameserver and a domain name. They could give you
a subdomain of theirs... They own, say, poo.com, then they can let
you use whatever.poo.com with a zone file in /var/named...
With a shell account on their machine,  a couple scripts, sudo
and some trust, you can set up something where either you update
your IP manually in the zone file, or you can write another script
that will log you in and recreate the zone file with the new IP.
Once you've got the zone file an appropriate access, you can have all
sorts of fun. :) www/ftp/mail/etc.whatever.poo.com, with the help of
some CNAME entries...

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: >Here is a link to a FAQ that will interest you.
: >ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Dynamic-IP-Hacks

: That URL is bad.  Try
: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/unmaintained/mini/Dynamic-...

: >Also, there are some domain name services that will give you a shared
: >domain that can adapt to your dynamic IP. I don't know about getting a
: >static hostname on your ISP's domain, tho.

: I used dyn.ml.org until it went out of business last year.
: There are a couple of short lifetime, easy update DNS providers,
: but the ones I could find are all commercial.  Anybody know
: of a replacement for Monolith?

: Cameron