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Mediaone host names



I have a way of getting the html file from the router.  Now I just need to
clean it up a little bit.  Here is the on line to get the htm file that
has the ip address in it.

lynx -source -auth=" ":admin http://router/Status.htm

If I get a chance I will work a little more on it tonight.

Anthony

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> The porblem I was having yesterday was that it killed my outgoing email 
> becase the mail server could not verify the host name, so I was not able 
> to send mail using exmh. I had to use Netscape and declare my smtp 
> host as smtp.ne.mediaone.net. In my case (and Tony's) we run a 
> Linksys BEFSR41 NAT Router, so ifconfig will only discover the address 
> of the local host, since the router owns the external address. 
> 
> On 26 Sep 2000, at 9:23, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> 
> > 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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