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On November 8, 2016 9:43:30 AM GMT+01:00, Willie M <matthews.willie80@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>On 11/07/2016 06:31 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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>> Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net> writes: |
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>>> On 2016-11-06 22:54, Willie M wrote: |
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>>>> http://freedns.afraid.org/ |
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>>> ++ ++ |
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>>> I had used both Dyn and NoIP before, but they both went all Web 2.0 |
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>on |
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>>> me (and other well known ones probably did the same). |
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>>> |
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>>> FreeDNS is just perfect for me - a blast of fresh air from the past |
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>:-) |
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>> Just the tiniest bit thin on explaining what the heck you are |
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>expected |
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>> to do on the various pages that appear when setting up an account. |
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>> I'd like to have a real ip for a change... been doing the fake home |
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>> lan thing for years and always there are problems with sendmail or |
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>> other mail apps. Either masquerading or some other work around. |
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>> Can anyone tell me if the freedns place will supply me with an ip |
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>that |
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>> will work for sendmail? Will stand up across the internet when other |
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>> internet hosts do reverse dns on my address for mail purposes. |
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>> They advertise static addresses too, is there any draw back to that? |
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>Hey Harry, |
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>If I a not mistaken if you change your nameservers to FreeDNS you will |
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>be able to have that dynamic IP Address that way. So your reverse |
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>lookup |
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>should work just fine. |
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>Only problem is that if your IP address changes, you would have a short |
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>amount of time that your server would not respond (because of the IP |
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>change). The default TTL on FreeDNS is 3600 seconds (1 hour). |
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>Reading on the front page it says that you can edit the TTL if you add |
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>your own domain. I don't know for sure how it all works because I have |
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>never added on. It doesn't hurt to try and it seems like it would be a |
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>lot better than what you are using now. |
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>Hope this helps. |
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Willie, |
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This will not work. |
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A reverse lookup (which FQDN for the IP) needs to work for all SMTP servers he is likely to send mail to. This would also include Google and Microsoft. |
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He needs to get his ISP to change the reverse DNS. |
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Joost |
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