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On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 12:23:18AM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote: > 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 That figures and is not surprising at all. Lucent/Livingston and ASCEND both do support it. Of course, between the two of them they're easily a majority of the market. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost
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