On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 05:12:08PM +0200, Someone wrote:
> Toad schrieb:
> 
> >SIX HOURS? Woah... my address gets changed at most once a month...
> 
> The longest time any of the major ISPs for DSL/Dialup allow you to
> have an IP is 24 hours, after that you'll get disconnected, no matter
> what comes, and get a new IP after reconnecting. There are some smaller
> ISPs that only allow between 6 and 12 hour without a forced disconnect.
> There are ISPs that give special offers for fixed IPs, but this costs
> quite some additional money and you won't get unlimited bandwith from
> them.

This is all very perplexing. The biggest economy in Europe has the worst
internet access in Western Europe... the second biggest (the UK) is
somewhere in the middle - no crazy enforced restrictions, but
bandwidth is mediocre, especially uplink bandwidth. Anyway, everyone add
Germany to your list of Countries Not To Emigrate To. ;)
> 
> >Yeah, the network needs to work pretty well for ARKs to be useful, and
> >anyway they operate over too long a timescale normally. Thus I never
> >reimplemented them for unstable.
> 
> Hmmm, but something like this would be needed.
> 
> >Dyndns is mainly needed for nodes behind NATs. A solution has been
> >half-coded, will be completed eventually.
> 
> But it also helps with changing IPs, if I don't use a dyndns on my node it
> takes ages after a forced disconnect for other nodes to reconnect to mine.
> With dyndns it's a matter of some minutes.
> 
> >Possibly. What's typical stats on stable?
> 
> The machine my nodes runs on is currently down (the IBM hard disk died),
> so I can't give exact numbers :-(. But from previous observations I can
> say that with using dyndns I had around 130 to 140 connections after
> around 2 hours from which 30 to 50 outgoing connections and the others
> incoming connections were. So my node always depended on incoming conns.
> 
> The IPs in the routing table changed quite fast and only very few of them
> stayed longer then 1 day.
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