Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dynamic IP hack (PR#294) | Date | Sun, 18 Oct 1998 21:07:13 -0300 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <tciuhhodnh.fsf@CR1004479-A.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com>, Eric Schenk wr ites: +----- | (after think about it on and off for close to 4 years). Frankly the | real problem is that the internet was never designed to allow for | dynamic IP addresses, and anything we do to hack them in results in +--->8
Nevertheless, they exist and they aren't going away until IPv6 becomes *the* standard (if then). Some way to support them is needed, as anyone can tell you who has tried to telnet out on a diald-enabled system only to have diald drop the line before the telnet times out :-( (Bumping the diald default up time isn't always a sane option, either.)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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