On 27-Jul-00, Fred Wright wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Chris Holt wrote:
>> Have you tried making the DNS servers permanent entries? I am already
>> required to do that, as the DNS servers that get "looked up" by Miami,
>> are not correct for my ISP. (due to them using another provider for the
>> POP in my area)
>
> It's preferable to use the automatic method when it works, since if the
> ISP is doing their job right it means you'll automatically track any
> changes they make to the DNS IPs. However, if they do it wrong then you
> may need to make static entries and perhaps even disable the automatic
> ones to get around it.
I think I pointed this out before, but my ISP does not own the POP that is
here. The DNS lookups work but the DNS servers that are returned do not
belong to Earthlink. Everything works when I leave DNS on automatic, with
the exception of sending mail. The SMTP server checks somehow, and does
not consider me to be "dialed up" to earthlink, much as if I tried to use
it from the LAN at work. I have seen several other services that use the
same POP as earthlink, and they all prefix the logon somehow. For
example, my earthlink logon is "ELN/digitalq". Now I'm assuming here that
if the machine that is used there can tell I belong to earthlink, then it
could somehow be told to spit back DNS servers that are owned by
earthlink, but I don't know.
Should I complain? I am, after all paying them for the service.
I think that if they change the DNS IPs, it would be pretty obvious though.
So I just call them up and find out the new ones, right?
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