On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 05:08:44PM +0200, Marc Schneiders wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > > > There is also the very real issue that ISPs will very probably start > > shifting ip addresses more often even when it is technically unnecessary, > > so as to avoid services like Freenet should we be successful. > > > > It is a real shame for the Internet in general that it is developing in > > the direction where even users who could be are not granted a permanent > > point of presence. Another one in the long list of dooming factors for the > > Internet - when we are done with Freenet it will be about time to start > > working on a full replacement. > > > > Have I not done my homework (i.e. read this list) or is dynamic dns > (which is to be had for free) the answer to this?
Dynamic DNS is based on a couple of centralized commercial services. If Freenet were to become dependant on a handful of dynamic DNS services then they provide a central point of failure (I'm worried enough about becomming dependant on normal DNS since that is centralized). > > -- > Marc Schneiders ------- Venster - http://www.venster.nl > |marc at venster.nl - marc at bijt.net - marc at schneiders.org| > A sleepless night's thoughts : http://www.freecopy.org > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:21:47AM -0500, david at aminal.com wrote: > > > Just a quick point - If you use IP addresses as identifiers you're > > > really swimming against the tide. IP addresses are evolving to be > > > strictly locators in a network topology, and losing the interface > > > identifier function. This is especially true in IPV6. V6 is > > > designed so that addresses can change easily and transparently, > > > whenever there is a change in the route to a particular machine. > > > > > > This may take some time to fully play out, but it is definitely > > > happening, because that's the only way known to make the IP network > > > scale up the way it needs too. > > > > > > David Schutt > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Freenet-dev mailing list > > > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > > > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev > > > > > > > -- > > \oskar > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev > -- \oskar _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
