Marnen Laibow-Koser's Journal

I've been using dynamic DNS in order to be able to connect to my home network easily from elsewhere, as my home network connects to the Internet through a DSL connection with a dynamic IP address, and I want to be able to use the same name to address the network without worrying about the current IP address. This is the usual example of what dynamic DNS is good for, and I'm sure that many of you reading this are doing something similar. But a couple of days ago, a new idea hit me: I'm going to start running a dynamic DNS client (with a different hostname) on my iBook as well. This will mean that wherever I take my iBook, and whatever network I connect to the Internet through, the iBook should still be addressable by the same hostname regardless. I think this is an exciting idea; it may be the first step toward persistent addressing of mobile computers. We'll see how it works out.