servers [T20000919006H] (fwd)

[gerry.feldman at compaq.com (Jerry Feldman)]

Medoaone has provided DNS on you host name as long as I have had 
Mediaone (4 years). Last year they changed their policy such that they 
would issue you a host name based on your MAC address. Previously 
your host name was based on your email address. Those of us who 
wanted to keep our host names were permitted to do so. 

AFAIK: Neither RCN nor Mediaone (AT&T) allow static IPs. Again, in my 
experience, my ip address was changed on several occations:
1. Newton was renumbered. 
2 and 3: I changed NICs.
Some other people have experienced changes of their IP address. 
> One of the things that Mediaone  did  (last  year  anyway)  that  RCN
> didn't was to provide a DNS name. 
--
Jerry Feldman
Contractor, eInfrastructure Partner Engineering   
508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/

Compaq Computer Corp.
200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1
Marlboro, Ma. 01752
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