Mediaone host names

[scott at MIT.EDU (Scott Ehrlich)]

Please prove me wrong here, but if you run a dhcp client and an SMTP
server, can't you run a script which periodically will perform an ifconfig
<M1 Ethernet interface> and email it to another account you have?  That
way you don't have to contact M1. If not, what am I missing?

Scott

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:

> Well, I'm one to say anything - I just tryed to ssh to myself - and my box
> is somewhere - I don't know where.  It's up - and running, but not at the
> ip that it was yesterday.  grrr - maybe if I call mediaone they can tell
> me what ip my box is at.
> 
> Anthony
> 
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> > One of the problems was that I like to use my system as an smtp server, 
> > and it caused my outgoing mail to get flushed. 
> > On 26 Sep 2000, at 8:59, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
> > 
> > > I think I may have mentioned it before, but if I didn't you can get a
> > > sub-domain served by tzo.com for $20 a year.  I have mediaone, and I use a
> > > tzo sub domain (home.tzo.org).  I got it the day after I got mediaone, it
> > > updates instantly, I can turn it off instantly - I'm happy with it.  If
> > > your worried about your domain I don't think you can go wrong with there
> > > service.
> > > 
> > > Anyway - just a suggestion if anyone is intrested,
> > > Anthony
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I got the Derek Martin syndrope this evening. I found that I was not able
> > > > to send email. I checked and my host name was no longer being served by 
> > > > Mediaone's DNS servers. As I was looking through the bounces on the
> > > > various lists I work on, there were several other mediaone host names that 
> > > > are no longer served. 
> > > > Apparently this is a bad hair day for them.
> > > > 
> > > > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > > > Associate Director
> > > > Boston Linux and Unix
> > > > http://www.blu.org
> > > > 
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> > 
> > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > Associate Director
> > Boston Linux and Unix user group
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