[thelist] setting up "localhost"

Chris Blessing webguy at mail.rit.edu
Sun Mar 10 22:02:00 CST 2002


Unfortunately most ISP's now-a-days use a combo of the username/computer
name and IP address to formulate the hostname of that machine.  For example,
road runner uses a city+ip based hostname like
roc-12-23-34-45.rochester.rr.com.

Ben, to see if you can use your external IP, hit up this site:

http://www.whatismyip.com

 From that you could try to go to http://youriphere and your modem/router
might let you through, but it sounds like either jeff is correct with his
assumption about your ISP using a NAT-type system for their customers or
your modem is purposely "protecting" you from the outside world.  How will
you get around that?  Only your ISP or a fellow customer would be able to
tell ya. =/

Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
http://www.330i.net

> Generally, with dialin accounts, the IP address for your
> computer is dynamic, but your computers fully-qualified name is > the
same.




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