[NCLUG] Cable Modem Refugees

[Terry M. Gray]

Under @home, the DHCP client ID was also used to provide dynamic DNS 
to your dynamic IP. Thus cXXXXXX-a.ftclns1.co.home.com would get you 
to your machine no matter what the IP address had changed into. You 
could use port mapping to set up web services, FTP, VNC, X-windows, 
etc. to different machines if you have those services on a machine 
other than your router or gateway machine. Hopefully it will all work 
pretty much the same under attbi or whatever.

TG


>Rob Gorman wrote:
>>
>>  If you don't mind, I would like see what you wrote.  Maybe I could
>>  plagiarize.  I'm not above it :)
>
>You know, I said to myself, "Maybe I should save a copy of this, just in
>case..."  Then I said to myself, "Nahhh."
>
>It was actually a pretty general note.  It said that I value being able
>to locate my computer from anywhere, and that this change seriously
>degrades the value of their service to me, and without change, I will
>likely move to another service as soon as possible.
>
>Y'know, it is DAMN difficult to vote with your pocketbook when nobody
>else wants your money...  C'mon, Qwest -- I'd really like to give you
>DSL money.  Really!  Or Sprint Broadband?  Could you, oh, I don't know,
>maybe decide to continue building that service?  It looks really neat,
>and I like neat.
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