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On 19 May 1998 08:06:24 -0400, William Allen Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: |Speaking as the author of "LCP Extensions", there is no such LCP |extension as "dynamically-assigned DNS servers". | |There is a bogus, NDA'd, Mircosoft-only, NetBEUI extension to PPP IPCP, |using numbers stolen from the high end of the option space without |registering with IANA, which is marginally applicable to DNS. | |This approach has been officially rejected by the IETF. It is not a |"best current practice". It only works with NT servers, which no sane |and stable ISP would use. FWIW, almost all of the NAS's in production today support Microsoft's PPP extensions for dynamically assigned DNS servers. Like it or not, it's something that we have to live w/today. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The internet, of course, is more than a place to find pictures of people having sex with dogs" -- Philip Elmer Dewitt, Time Magazine, July 3, 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] [email protected]
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