Jeremy wrote:
> I have a static IP and hostname in the .ampr.org. domain.
> I'm wondering if it's possible to use this IP on my home
> machine when I connect to the Internet via my ISP.
Hi Jeremy,
I think the best thing to do is to live with the fact that,
since you have multiple interfaces (ISP, packet),
you also have two IP addresses. If you could ever
get the 44.x.y.z to be the address on your (ppp)
link, how are people on the Internet going to
reach you? It's not going to be easy to propagate
the routing information for your 44.x.y.z address
through the Internet (and DNS has absolutely nothing
to do with this problem).
Anyone on the Internet performing a DNS queury on blabla.ampr.org
is likely to get your 44.x.y.z. address as a reply.
Packets sent to this address from the Internet are likely
to be either discarded or gatewayd to a packet-radio link.
I don't think you or your ISP can easily change that,
because the (ampr.org) name servers are not supposed to
accept such changes from just any ISP on the net.
Best stick to your dynamic IP address and use
something like ddns (www.ddns.org, I guess) or
DynIP to map some nice name to your dynamic IP
address. Or, a come.to adress perhaps.
(Not all of these are for free, BTW.)
So who cares your machine has two names,
mine's got four
(ISP, ampr.org, ddns, hidden domain)...
>
>
> The way it is now, I get a dynamic IP address when I
> connect. I was told I could get my ISP to setup the
> reverse DNS on their servers so that the IP address
> would resolve into the domain name correctly.
Since I didn't get your problem straight, I just don't
see what good this would do... But I guess the problem won't have
to do primarily with reverse DNS. Why would anyone
try to 'reverse-DNS' your (ISP??) address, and why would that
solve your problem?
>
>
> Is this possible? What about against ampr.org rules?
They're ambiguous anyway :-)
In short: I think it is impossible or at the least very complicated.
>
>
> TIA,
> Jeremy
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Good luck, regards,
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