Janina Sajka in <20030629204637.GC24435 at rednote.net>: >But that service would have to update its record every minute or so. >It's not the ip address that's the problem. I don't mind typing numbers. >It's the way her ISP changes the ip address every minute or so. I'm not >kidding--I've had her do an ifconfig ppp0 and we get a different address >every minute or so. This would cause a problem as the system will kick you off updating the hostname ip address every minute. Are you sure this is not an isp/configuration problem at her end? If it really is changing every minute, there are serious problems (i.e, how to download large files). Andrew. -- Andrew Hodgson, Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK. Email: Andrew at hodgsonfamily.org