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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Date: 25 May 90 12:48:54 GMT
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In <9005251124.AA00811@mercury.mitre.org> rich@GATEWAY.MITRE.ORG writes:
> A PC user could dial into a gateway that would give the PC a temporary IP
> address.  A protocol was also developed that would allow the PC user to
> update a modified Domain Name Server with its temporary IP address so
> that other hosts could initiate connections to the PC.

	One could set up a Shiva NetModem in dial-in-network-access mode on
an AppleTalk net behind a FastPath running KIP and then anybody with a Mac
could do exactly that.  KIP hands out IP addresses from a pool on a dynamic
basis and all you need at the remote end is a Mac, any of a number of
commercial or free IP packages, and a regular 1200/2400/9600 bps modem.
The only thing missing is the automatic updating of DNS, but if your intent
is to just let the roming user get his/her mail, all you need is an account
on a POP server and DNS doesn't have to know anything.
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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"Arcane?  Did you say arcane?  It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"