Re: dynamic ip's

Chris Woods (cjwoods@paladin.com)
Thu, 1 Feb 1996 07:53:13 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, William Tiemann wrote:

> all:
> I was wondering if it is posable to have a name like ttiemann.castles.com
> with a dynamic ip, i do know however that it is possable to have it that way
> with a static ip.
> thanks ahead of time

Not really, not yet. I believe the DNS dynamic update proposal that is in
the works withe the IETF will make this possible, but I'm not sure (I
haven't seen the draft).

A name is bound to an IP address. If your IP address changes, your name
changes.

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