Mike Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Luca Olivetti wrote:
>>
>>> features) and do complain about bugs and missing features.
>>
>> missing features: I'd like the ip-goingdown patch integrated in the "standard"
>> release of diald. See http://pages.prodigy.net/ervwalter/
>
> This might be what I would like, in which case apologies .... I'd like
> a pre-disconnect cript, so that, for instance, one could terminate
> some run-while-up processes. I guess it'd need a timeout
That would also be nice for dynamic DNS (such as was up until recently
offered by dyn.ml.org) and similar features; right before disconnect,
you can tell the other machine that you're not going to be around. (In
the DNS case, this would probably be assigning the DNS an IP number that
is reserved to not be used, so that you guarentee the host will time
out. It could also be giving an IP number of a machine that firewalls
everything.)
I had been intending on using monolith, but because I couldn't get diald
to do a propper sign-off (using my own hacked up thingy; I intended to
switch to DYN-DNS when I got the hack some semblance of decency.)
One could also use this to sign off of various message protocols; ICQ,
for example, tends to recognize quicker that you've gone off-line when
you tell it that you have.
I guess this is sort of the same thing as you're thinking of, just from
the perspective of the internet, rather than your local box.
*sigh*
Ed
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