On 2019 Jun 11 21:35:42, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 BF> Since I got a new IP every time I reconnected -- and often even when I
 BF> *was* connected -- I never could use it for any kind of server
 BF> functions (such as binkd), only for outgoing traffic.

really??? i've always done that as long as i've had a public IP address... it 
was a simply matter of updating my DDNS entry and that was done by running a 
tool that stayed in the background and handled the updates automatically... 
yes, i ran servers on my dialup... most of the time, the new IP spread through 
the network within minutes... no problem and it worked quite well...

)\/(ark

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Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it 
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