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Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Thu Apr 14 13:08:55 2005 
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Brandon Ross wrote:
> > ;-)  Seriously, though, some benefits can be imagined, like being able to
> > use the same DNS server on my laptop no matter where in the world I plug
> > in.
>
> people do that today.... unforunately they do it with 198.6.1.1 :(

Its called DHCP/PPP, both will auto-magically configure the correct DNS
for your current network connection.  If your laptop changes IP addresses,
it should get new network configuration details for the current network.