Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

[Brandon Ross <bross () internap com>]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Sean Donelan wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> > 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.

Which doesn't work very well when your provider cannot keep a DNS server 
up for 10 minutes at a time.  See the beginning of this thread.

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