Duh. 1. Turn on brain. 2. Read email. It helps if I do it in that order. We use DHCP at work and in many cases we used static addresses. I just assumed you had you had control over the IP addresses, or do you? regards, jimmo On Wednesday 13 February 2002 19:08, Gordon Pritchard wrote:
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 09:51, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
Rather then reaching your home PC via its IP address why not reach via its name.
Don't I have to register a name, and pay $$$? I don't have a name, and I'm cheap :-)
there are services like www.dyndns.org
Yes, I was aware of these guys. A nice answer if I wanted a *publicly* available machine. Or, if I had a registered name.
I recall that there was even a package for a similar service in teh SuSE CD's
A package that did what? I'd be interested if you had a package-name, so that I could read about it...
Thanks, -Gord
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