Subj : A stable server with dial-up connection To : Bj”rn Felten From : mark lewis Date : Fri Jun 14 2019 11:20:52 On 2019 Jun 14 17:10:14, you wrote to me: ml>> it was perfectly stable... stayed online with the same IP for weeks... BF> So, what part of: BF>> Since I got a new IP every time I reconnected -- and often even when BF>> I *was* connected -- I never could use it for any kind of server BF>> functions (such as binkd), only for outgoing traffic. BF> ... did you not understand? that's from a different message than i responded to just now... i understood it perfectly as my connection was the same... new IP for each connection... my comment, above, was to your statement that my setup/connection did not seem stable to you... here it is again just so you and others can follow along clearly... [quote] ml>> i've always done that as long as i've had a public IP address... it ml>> was a simply matter of updating my DDNS entry and that was done by ml>> running a tool that stayed in the background and handled the updates ml>> automatically... yes, i ran servers on my dialup... most of the time, ml>> the new IP spread through the network within minutes... no problem ml>> and it worked quite well... BF> Doesn't seem very stable to me. it was perfectly stable... stayed online with the same IP for weeks... [/quote] i'll give you props for the nice try at attempting to confuse the postings and what they state at certain points of the conversation... )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... Nothing like a bribe to get things rolling. --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .