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- From: Ben E. Colley <tpmaint@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
- Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet "dynamic addressing" problem.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.041449.11317@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:14:49 GMT
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- In article <CKD.92Jul20164744@loiosh.eff.org> Christopher Davis,
- ckd@eff.org writes:
- >No, you're not dense. "Dynamic" is Apple's joke on you. It apparently
- >just takes an address and hopes it's not in use (really). I wish they'd
- >have made a bit better choice of terms, like "Manual", "Server-assigned
- >Dynamic", and "Don't use this choice".
-
- Right On! Maybe there is a use for Apple's "Dynamic", but it not for use
- with GatorBoxes and obviously not for EtherTalk'ed or TokenTalk'ed (any
- more) Macs. I haven't found it yet.
-
- > Fred> My remaining problem is that a dynamically assigned address
- > Fred> doesn't show up in the look-up tables. I can't ftp to some
- > Fred> machines that verify your address, such as ftp.apple.com.
- >
- >That's your network administrator's problem; it's quite possible to add
- >reverse mapping for dynamically-assigned machines, as long as you don't
- >care what machine gets what name (in which case you wouldn't be using
- >dynamic addressing, I hope).
-
- Yeah, and in our case its my problem too. I'm probably gonna have to
- "byte" the bullet and assign names to the pooled addresses. Would you be
- willing to post your "more creative" scheme, or e-mail me directly?
-
- Ben
-