From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from hodgsonfamily.org ([195.166.147.102] ident=qmailr) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19WjMx-0004O6-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:05:56 -0400 Received: (qmail 20030 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2003 21:05:57 -0000 Received: from andrew.hodgsonfamily.org (192.168.1.3) by brookfield.hodgsonfamily.org (192.168.1.2) with SMTP; 29 Jun 2003 21:05:57 -0000 From: Andrew Hodgson To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: This DHCP is too dynamic Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:05:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20030629200755.GB24435@rednote.net> <20030629204637.GC24435@rednote.net> In-Reply-To: <20030629204637.GC24435@rednote.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Janina Sajka in <20030629204637.GC24435@rednote.net>: >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. This would cause a problem as the system will kick you off updating the hostname ip address every minute. Are you sure this is not an isp/configuration problem at her end? If it really is changing every minute, there are serious problems (i.e, how to download large files). Andrew. --=20 Andrew Hodgson, Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK. Email: Andrew@hodgsonfamily.org