Chapter 4. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP)
• DNS service account name
• DNS service password
Order services from: Service List B
3. You receive a routable, dynamically assigned IP address and you elect not to use a dynamic DNS service OR your IP address is
non-routable.
Information provided to you by your ISP:
• IP address of cablemodem or ADSL router ("gateway IP address")*
• subnet mask*
Order services from: Service List D
4.3.3. Ordering a dialup connection
It is typical for you to purchase and install your own modem for your dialup connection. (Be sure to use a Linux-compatible modem
- WinModems will not work.) Your modem connects to your ISP over a conventional phone line. If you require an additional phone
line, it is typical for you to arrange that yourself.
There are two possible configurations with dialup service:
1. Your ISP is able to meet all of the following three conditions:
• you receive a routable, static IP address
• your ISP will provide a secondary mail server for your domain, which receives e-mail when your server is not connected.
18
