Re: [cobalt-users] Real World Qube 2 and such

[jk@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Jens Kristian Søgaard)]

Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx> writes:

> > something like 30 seconds or similar. This will work all most
> > everywhere (although you can't say about something like AOL and their
> > weird DNS servers).

> Setting TTL so low without good reason is verging on net abuse, IMHO.

Well, just set it a bit higher then.

The technique is in use many places on the net - so I won't really go
so far as to call it "net abuse". Lots of places have dynamically
updated ip-addresses - and thus also dns.

> > It isn't exactly like you changing ip-adresses every fifth minute,
> > just because it's dynamically generated. On a xDSL line you can
> > probably hold on to your ip for days or weeks.

> But how long would you hold on to your account, once the ISP realises
> you're running servers on a cable modem line?

Here were I live, it is perfectly legal and allowed by the cable
companies to run servers on these lines. Some of the firms (like
CyberCity) even gives out static ip's "at no extra cost".

And yes, I know it's not for professionally run servers. Dynamic ips
can never be used for that.


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