This DHCP is too dynamic

[Janina Sajka]

But that service would have to update its record every minute or so.
It's not the ip address that's the problem. I don't mind typing numbers.
It's the way her ISP changes the ip address every minute or so. I'm not
kidding--I've had her do an ifconfig ppp0 and we get a different address
every minute or so.

Andrew Hodgson writes:
> From: Andrew Hodgson <andrew at hodgsonfamily.org>
> 
> Janina Sajka in <20030629200755.GB24435 at rednote.net>:
> 
> >I'm trying to help a friend. I have an account on her system, but her
> >ISP seems to change her IP about once a minute. 
> >
> >Aside from my curiosity about how they could make such a thing work, is
> >there anything I can do to stabalize her on a single address?
> >
> >I've never seen anything like this, but then I have no experience with
> >pppoe, either.
> 
> Sign her up for a dynamic dns hostname <www.dyndns.org> are very good,
> and the Linux clients work very well, run as a daemon etc.  The
> service is free, and you refer to her box via myname.dyndns.org and
> then if they have the correct a record assigned to that hostname then
> you can connect.  The clients can be configured (i.e, how often to
> update dyndns records etc).
> 
> Andrew.
> -- 
> Andrew Hodgson, Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
> Email: Andrew at hodgsonfamily.org
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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