On 2 Jun 99, at 15:08, Marcus Steeneken wrote:

> I intend to bring this subject up next week with the market research
> people.
>
> I have a suggestion that might just be acceptable to the big "T".
>
> If Telecom are prepared to update thier DNS server with the new IP address
> assigned to an ADSL customer when it changes (at Authentication) and give
> the ADSL customer a host name that will always resolve to the correct IP
> address. ie.
>
> SteenekenM@xtra.co.nz or SteenekenM@adsl.xtra.co.nz
>
> This is how it is done in the NT world its called WINs and the DHCP server
> updates the WINs and DNS server when a new IP has been assigned.
>
> Would this be acceptable to you lot?

I don't know. I think the hostname would be more like
SteenekenM.ADSL.xtra.co.nz. And yes, that would be plenty good for
me. I could just do a number of CNAMEs off that.

BTW: do my messages contain HTML? I hope not. If they do, please
let me know. I *hate* that.

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