[despammed] Re: Dial up and cable modem

[Wes Groleau]

> If the IP changes, the dyn IP service sends out an update to the DNS
> servers. It takes twenty minutes to an hour or so to update the DNS host
> lists. Once the DNS list has been updated, one can do a domain name
> resolution to determine the actual IP.

I have an account with dyndns.org  I have a program running
that notifies them of my IP when I dialup through Earthlink.
Earthlink's DNS servers apparently know about it sooner than
I can get to a command line to check.

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Wes Groleau
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