On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:42:34 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: >McKown, John wrote: >> I have the problem with my Linux desktop. It is not part of the Windows >> domain and so does/can not register itself with DDNS. I know it is >> possible, but politics on the part of the Windows support staff deny me >> the option. > >It might not just be politics. There are fairly-recently-adopted "open" >standards for DDNS. My understanding is that Micro$oft does not follow >them strictly. In fairness, they came up with their solution in advance >of the standards being finalized. > I recall a problem I used to have, perhaps using dialup/PPP. Something wasn't timing out sufficiently fast, and/or not all PPP clients were playing by the same rules; perhaps mine wasn't identifying itself properly. When I connected and logged in, "who am i" would display the host name of a client that has previously connected to the same port, and then name lookup would return the IP address of a port to which that same client had more recently connected (My kiang's conjecture at an explanation of the phenomenon I observed).
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