Re: Sick of Demon...advice wanted on ISP's

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From: Richard Letts
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 00:00

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Nigel Barker (nigel@openvms.demon.co.uk) wrote:

> Also I always thought that you needed static addresses to do SMTP.

No. you can do SMTP delivery using dynamic addresses, it just requires
a little more thought, and use of dynamic updates to the DNS.
[in fact, you can do it without this, by having a static DNS, and
hacking the gethostbyname() routine to return the current IP address
assigned to a node -- simple]

This is one of the reasons why the dynamic vs static argument is so pointless.

Richard
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From: richard@illuin.demon.co.uk (Richard Letts)
Subject: Re: Sick of Demon...advice wanted on ISP's
Date: 1996/01/22
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