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what if your IP was portable?

Started by Riaz Kanani · 11 months ago

Thinking about the internet and its makeup. Today, when you connect to the internet, whether it is from your phone or from your computer, it is given an IP address from whatever ISP you are connected to. If you travel somewhere and connect to the internet somewhere else using the exact same de ... Continue reading »

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  • Dynamic DNS only solves the forward lookup problem, if you want to find your home server like you say.


    If you wanted every site you visited to know who you were you would need more ISPs to let you set the reverse lookup to your own domain name - though this would talk 48 hours to change, so wouldn't be suitable for temporary connections.
  • true - the reverse lookup would not work.. that still requires the ability to take the IP address with you which leaves us back with changing the way the internet works at its core. The only way around that would be to have some way of broadcasting your dynamic dns identity rather than your IP address.

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