Verizon DSL?

[dubrowin at yahoo.com (Sheldon Dubrowin)]

I have RCN and use a service called tzo.com.  When my machine get's it's
dynamic IP Address, it runs a script to tell tzo.com where I am now.  All my
DNS records point to the static tzo.com hostname.  When I update tzo.com,
they update my static hostname.  As you can see (www.shelnet.org), this is a
hack, but it works reliably.

	Shel


On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 11:16:10AM -0400, jc at trillian.mit.edu wrote:
> While investigating ways to get a real Internet hookup at home, I ran
> across the following curious claim in Verizon's FAQ:
> 
>    Can I register a domain name for my Web page?
>    No.  Because Verizon has a dynamic IP allocation scheme, we do not
>    currently support this function.
> 
> Now, this first struck me as clueless, because of  course  web  pages
> don't  have  domain  (DNS)  names, network interfaces do.  Then their
> curious explanation reached my conscious mind.  Dynamic IP  addresses
> are the main reason you'd need a DNS, name, of course.  With a static
> IP address, you could give people the address, and a DNS name is nice
> but  not  absolutely  required.   But with a dynamic IP address, this
> wouldn't work, and  you  need  a  DNS  name  to  discover  what  your
> machine's address is at the moment.
> 
> Well,  of  course,  if  you're on the machine, ifconfig will probably
> tell you.  But if I'm at work and want to ssh into the  machine,  how
> could I discover its address?  Or are they telling me that they don't
> allow things like sshing into a home machine?
> 
> I've noticed that some folks do seem to have DSL links.  Can you  get
> into your machine from the outside?  If so, how do you do it?
> 
> (I've sent a question to Verizon, but I expect that the  answer  will
> also be clueless.  ;-)
> 
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