For the old timers

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Jun 2 20:08:35 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 03:28:32PM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> My Rogers IP address hasn't changed for more than a year. Each Rogers  
> customer also gets a FQDN. I set up a CNAME to a hostname I can remember  
> so that I don't have to remember cpe-bla-bla-bla and that gives me the  
> ability to get a remote shell to my machine at home, if I need it.

I know that, but still a DHCP address that doesn't usually change is not
the same thing as a static IP.  And you certainly don't get a choice in
reverse DNS entry on the dynamic IP either.  No idea if teksavvy gives
you a choice on static IPs.  I would have thought they would.

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