On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:39:09PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 04:25:41PM -0500, bdonlan spake thusly: > > - From what I can tell, it's your node's reference, uploaded to a SSK@. Other > > nodes try to retrieve it to get updated IP addresses. > > Ah-ha. So it's a way of attempting to handle dynamic ip's so they seem > less like transient nodes and more like permanent. Thanks!
Dyndns.org provides the other common way to do this. However, it would appear that java caches DNS lookups with no regard to expiration data, so dyndns doesn't work very well, apart from the fact that it is centralized and difficult to set up and support automatically. > > -- > Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://amphibian.dyndns.org:8889/3arPAuj7w-c/ ICTHUS.
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