I've never seen anything like it. It seems, though, that they mean to do things this way, because she was successful using scp to copy a kernel rpm from my system. That worked, but ftp didn't. I'm having her call and ask questions tomorrow. Hopefully, she can just get a static IP for a few dollars extra. Andrew Hodgson writes: > Janina Sajka in <20030629204637.GC24435 at rednote.net>: > >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).
