Verizon DSL?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

John,
Some of your email has been bouncing. 

Verizon DSL uses PPPoE which gives you a dynamic IP. Mediaone also 
gives you a dynamic IP, but Mediaone also assigns you a host name 
which is updated when your IP address changes. Don't know if Verizon 
assigns a host name. Mediaone host names used to be your email user 
name, eg. gaf.ne.mediaone.net. Now they use the MAC address of your 
NIC. I don't know if they allow you to request your email userid any 
longer. Many of us kept our old host names. I think RCN also uses the 
MAC address as part of the host name. 
Not all DSL providers use PPPoE and some will provide a static IP. 


On 25 Oct 2000, at 11:28, jc at trillian.mit.edu wrote:

> BTW, a week or so back I asked  a  similar  question  about
> RCN.  But I didn't get it back from the list, and never saw
> any replies.  I do remember sending it with the  -v  option
> and saw that blu.org accepted it.  So was it tossed out, or
> was it just something that nobody had any opinions on?
> 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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