:~>Ok, I get my temporary IP-address there. I get it in the dotted-decimal
:~>notation. What to do with the *names* ( like 'havlik.org' )
:~>(i.e. my second and third question) ?
If you want you can do "nslookup" and get your "current" name, but this is
not required for normal use. Actually, the only "good use" of your
temporary ip-address I can think of is using it to contact your machine
from the outside.
Your provider is supposed to provide you with a mail-server. mail servers
are (well, some of them...) configured in such a way as to diminish
chances of spamming as much as possible. Therefore they do not allow
relying for "most of the wold", but providers machine should allow relying
for you.
However, they (obviously) do not accept e-mails from "non-existing"
machines. "Non-existing" is a machine which does not exist in "DNS"
database, like "fudo.havlik.org", which is my home-machine.
Therefore your machine must pretend it is something else when sending
e-mails. My suggestion is to pretend you are the "mail server". "fudo"
pretends it is "havlik.org" if I recall it right. Since "havlik.org"
really exists, the problem is solved (i hope)... I think you could
pretend you are the ISP-s mailserver.
Last remark: do not try dispatching your e-mails directly. Let your ISP
mail-server do it for you, otherwise you will end up with higher telephone
bills and problems with anti-spam checks all over the place.
cu
Denis
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