It is current practice for an ISP to assign DNS numbers dynamically
when the connection is established. After running Arachne or Lynx,
the values that were used are in the environment variables "myip"
and "remip".
Ken Martwick
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Ron/Edenyard,
>
> I heard Windows could automatically get DNS numbers from the server when logging
> on, but other OSes couldn't. I don't know how it's done. Non-Windows OSes
> therefore need to be told the DNS numbers, usually two dotted-decimal addresses,
> though some applications use only the first of these two.
>
