alt Hacker NewsOut of curiosity, what's the use case for ringconnectd? Just to find out what your IP is? What would you need that for back in the day?
Out of curiosity, what's the use case for ringconnectd? Just to find out what your IP is? What would you need that for back in the day?
Dialup systems typically spent most of their time offline. If you wanted to connect to one over IP you'd need some way to get it to dial back up to the ISP, and then some way to get the new address it'd ended up on.