New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

Brandon Ross bross at internap.com
Thu Apr 14 23:16:15 UTC 2005


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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