Option 8.17 in the DHCP proposal

"Philip A. Prindeville" <philipp@erols.com> Wed, 17 April 1996 19:53 UTC

Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 15:39:00 -0400
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From: "Philip A. Prindeville" <philipp@erols.com>
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Subject: Option 8.17 in the DHCP proposal

I was wondering about section 8.17 -- "Default World Wide Web (WWW)
Server Option"...

Is this supposed to be a Proxy server?  I couldn't think of any reason
to have it unless this was the case...

Also, what about other proxy services?  FTP, telnet, socks, gopher,
wais, etc?

And on the subject of WWW, could we include the URL of a sort of
"message of the day" that a remote user should look at when his
machine is booted up (sort of like /etc/motd under unix when you log
in) that might contain information about maintenance, new features,
etc...  Especially useful for ISPs trying to reach their subscribers.

I wonder how long it might conceivably take before popular PC-based
Internet software (like Plus! or Netscape) starts making use of
some of the new DHCP features:  NNTP, SMTP, POP3 servers, etc...
>From my limited understanding of the NT/95 Registry, plugging new
values into the Registry (or even setting dynamic hooks) shouldn't
be too complicated.  Can anyone confirm this?

-Philip

Option 8.17 in the DHCP proposal Philip A. Prindeville