On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote:
At 08:26 PM 3/6/00 +0000, Phil Shrimpton wrote:
Hi,
I am getting a cable modem in a week or so, and my cable company will only assign a dynamic IP address to them to prevent people using web servers at home.
Although I don't really want to run my own web server (it would be nice though), I would like to run my own mail server. I have my own domain registered, but is it possible to do this with a dynamic IP address, if not is there any work around?
TECHNICALLY, not easily.
You COULD do:
mail.yourdomain.com CNAME foo.dyndns.com @ IN MX mail.yourdomain.com
where dyndns.com is some "dynamic IP to name matching service", EXCEPT that (technically), MX records cannot point to CNAME's.
Will it work? Yes. Is it the right thing to do? No.
D
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