Do tell. All I know is what I learned while making it work, and some more in 
the Cisco certification program ;) They had us enter it manually there btw. 

::shrug::

Anyways... I just signed up with a Santa Fe isp, which is probably what I 
should have done in the first place. And the confirmation email gives me, guess 
what, access number and name server address ;)

Dana

> Well, you may have done it for years, but you're wrong.
> 
> Many companies require you to automatically pull both DHCP and DNS, 
> that's why you have the pretty little check box in your network 
> settings.
> 
> You're dial up software, even the built in windows stuff, handle the 
> handshake for your modem and all the tcp/ip settings.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:06 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: isps, wow
> 
> The DHCP server assigns the ip address. You still need the DNS server 
> to sesolve domain names. In order to manually set up a dialup 
> connection, you need two pieces of information -- access (phone) 
> number and dns server info. Trust me on this, did it for a living for 
> years. 
> 
> So as an update to this -- I told Netzero that no, I did not want to 
> wait seven to ten business days for them to mail me a CD, and that if 
> their technical support people did not know pertinent information 
> needed to connect, I wanted to cancel my account. They apparently have 
> been taking lessons from AOL as thi led to a serious wait for the 
> special cancellation technician who offered me two free months for the 
> inconvenience and finally was prevailed upon to understand that free 
> months would do me no good if I could not connect to the internet to 
> download the software that would allow me to connect to the internet 
> ;) 
> 
> She did finally cancel the account but whoops, they accidentally 
> billed me free months or not and it will take 30 to 60 days for the 
> refund to process. Now the 9.95 definitely isn't going to break me but 
> considering that the taco house up the street can issue a refund in 
> three minutes I was skeptical and called VISA to dispute the charge. 
> They were sympathetic but said that I have to give them a chance to 
> refund the money. My guess is that the business model here is founded 
> on the probability that I will have forgotten about this in thirty 
> days. 
> 
> Bottom line: Most people here probably do broadband, but if you are 
> setting up a relative or something: Netzero, PeoplePC, don't bother. 
 
> 
> 
> >I guess what they are saying is that when you connect to them the 
> DHCP
> >assigns all this for you, including the DNS server.
> >
> >Unless there is another reason you need that info?
> >
> >
> >Andrew Scott
> >Senior Coldfusion Developer
> >Aegeon Pty. Ltd.
> >www.aegeon.com.au
> >Phone: +613  8676 4223
> >Mobile: 0404 998 273
> 

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