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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: renumbering and roaming
At 2:44 PM -0400 5/19/98, Clayton O'Neill wrote: >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. Really? I can't seem to find it in the USR manuals. --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc [email protected] LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP/DCE http://www.av8.com We Make IT Fly! (617)242-3091 x246 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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