On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > 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
I do not know how many there are exactly, but definitely more than a few or a handful. Some are non-commercial. So I do think your view of the possibilities of dynamic DNS is unnecessarily pessimistic. > 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). What's so centralized about DNS? It is very much in essence a distributed database. I cannot see how depending upon it, is more dangerous than depending upon IP addresses. Their functioning also depends on the same system. -- 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 _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
