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Re: long lost wearable page

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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:00:57 +0200

Michael Paine wrote:
> 
> Has anyone used the dynip service with their wearable?  If so, are there
> alternatives for non-static IP connections out there?

If you want to make people to be able finding your current IP, you might
display it in a prominent static place: your home page, for instance. 
When serving 24/7 content from your home box, this is usually done with a 
redirection URL stored at your home page stored at your ISP, which is 
refreshed when the address changes (if you're on a flat rate, you can 
bruteforce it by crontabbing a script which uploads the redirection
anchor via ftp).

There are more advanced methods, using distributed querying in
dynamic sparse random connectivity clouds, which work via small number 
of degrees of separation (if you know about the current state of
just ten other entities, each subsequent fanning out of the query 
means an additional, order of magnitude, and of course you can store 
information about several k IDs with very little 
costs to you -- with that scheme can query a billion IDs in just three
easy steps).

But these methods require a certain criticality in their use. Meaning,
they're useless as long not a nonnegligable fraction of people out there
are already running it. A typical technological chicken & egg dilemma.
We're stuck untless we can zero-cost bundle it with some other piece
of usable software, perhaps with an instant messenger, or an anonymous
distributed file sharing software (MojoNation et al.).

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