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 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231046 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
