The DHCP server assigns the ip address. You still need the DNS server to sesolve domain names. In order to manually set up a dialup connection, you need two pieces of information -- access (phone) number and dns server info. Trust me on this, did it for a living for years.
So as an update to this -- I told Netzero that no, I did not want to wait seven to ten business days for them to mail me a CD, and that if their technical support people did not know pertinent information needed to connect, I wanted to cancel my account. They apparently have been taking lessons from AOL as thi led to a serious wait for the special cancellation technician who offered me two free months for the inconvenience and finally was prevailed upon to understand that free months would do me no good if I could not connect to the internet to download the software that would allow me to connect to the internet ;) She did finally cancel the account but whoops, they accidentally billed me free months or not and it will take 30 to 60 days for the refund to process. Now the 9.95 definitely isn't going to break me but considering that the taco house up the street can issue a refund in three minutes I was skeptical and called VISA to dispute the charge. They were sympathetic but said that I have to give them a chance to refund the money. My guess is that the business model here is founded on the probability that I will have forgotten about this in thirty days. Bottom line: Most people here probably do broadband, but if you are setting up a relative or something: Netzero, PeoplePC, don't bother. >I guess what they are saying is that when you connect to them the DHCP >assigns all this for you, including the DNS server. > >Unless there is another reason you need that info? > > >Andrew Scott >Senior Coldfusion Developer >Aegeon Pty. Ltd. >www.aegeon.com.au >Phone: +613 8676 4223 >Mobile: 0404 998 273 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231037 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
