Lars-Einar Jansson wrote:
>>First call your isp, it's their job and their department to fix
>> these problems.
Remember that Lars-Einar is from Sweden just as I am, and I doubt he has
better ISPs then I or people I know have. They will not give out
information (espacially if you know what you want to know then they get
upset. Or atleast they did when I asked for the DNS).
>Stupid question: what is DHCP?
It's supposed to give the computer all settings via the InterNet
connection. For instance DNS come this way doesn't it?
>How come this doesn't work in DOS (Arachne, Bobcat et.al.)? Is it very
>difficult to implement, or is it just a feature lacking in DOSPPPD? What
>about Linux? Does it auto-configure DNS-addresses?
IIRC DHCP will be added in Arachne 1.60 (actually in Watcom TCP)
>The client-stock of one of my ISPs was recently sold to another ISP, Spray
>(http://www.spray.se), claiming to have around one million Swedes as
>users, making it one of the largest ISPs in this country. My account was to
>be transferred as well to Spray. I looked in vain in the documents I had
>received for a DNS-address to enter in Arachne. They hadn't supplied
>any, so I called their support. The young lady who answered didn't seem to
>have a clue about what a DNS-address was. I decided not to activate my
>Spray-account... Turned out the old account was still working, and still is.
Well, those 1 million (1/9 of the population for those who think that 1
million is a small number) is probably also e-mail users and people who
have just signed on because they are free. My sister had an e-mail address
there and it never worked. But we did find a way to solve it, all we had to
do was send them a mail ;)
We changed her e-mail server to starwarsemail.com shortly after.
Actually the chief of Spray is comming to give a lecture at my school soon.
She's rather special since she has no hair and no right (IIRC) hand. But
you soon look past that when talking to her.
>I have two other ISPs as well, Utfors and Tele2. The former supplied DNS-
>adresses in the printed info I received.
Utfors did NOT give DNS info to a girl I was trying to help when her old
ISP was bought up by them. (Which in turn had been bought up by another
earlier IIRC)
>The latter, which is perhaps the
>largest ISP in Sweden, did not. It seems to me that the larger the ISP, the
>less they know about configuration issues. Instead they supply pre-
>configured CD-ROMs with M$IE.
But neither Telias (owned by swedish goverment which BTW will merge with
Norweigan goverments phone company soon) or Tele2 have working installation
programs on those CDs. I really don't know why they even send anything at all.
>BTW, are there any ISPs offering so called shell accounts in other parts of
>the world?
If you call in to Tele2 you will get sort of a Unix shell (just don't start
ppp), but that's all I think there is (just to let you know - they claimed
that they had removed it but it's still there (even expanded)).
I think there was an ISP based in the �rebro area that had shell access.
IIRC the prices were extremly low as well. But they have probably been
bought up by now. IIRC Xpress Online had Shell access way back when they
were local to my city (Karlstad).
//Bernie
http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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