Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 2 and @home networks

["Chris Adams" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:53:51 -0800, Kris Dahl wrote:

>the DHCP requiring identification.  DHCP isn't going to work for the Qube
>more than likely due to their implementation.  I would quesiton any
>implementation of dynamically assignment of static addresses.  Just one more
>thing to complicate the situation.  THey also use some not oft-used parts of
>DHCP to setup host name information, etc. so that you just have to type
>'mail' or whatever into your email client for SMTP instead of (for example)

That's DNS - mail works because your computer is a host in the specific
subdomain and hosts can be resolved relative to that domain. My computer is
in .elcjn1.sdca.home.com so a simple resolve for "mail" will get the proper
mail.elcjn1.sdca.home.com. No DHCP necessary, which is fortunate because I
have tried 2 widely separate locations, 4 computers, 5 NICs, Win95, Win98, NT
4.0, W2K, Linux, OS/2 and BeOS and DHCP has never once worked. This is
apparently quite common as all of their techs have immediately done the
"Yeah, that happens a lot. Here's the info to enter manually." routine.

Regards,
Chris