Forum: Author Hangout

any reason I would want to.

If someone is not a premier member, they are limited to reading a maximum number of stories (I forget the number). With 3 accounts, they can read 3 times that maximum number of stories.

When tailoring my ISP's internet access I was offered a fixed or changing IP Address. Since I had no plans to host websites, I thought an ever-changing IP address might be more secure. I think it's quite funny to see the varying predictions of where I live each day depending on the IP Address I've been allocated.

I wonder whether Lazeez's system can cope with constantly changing IP Addresses.

AJ

A genuinely fixed IP is something my ISP charges extra for, but even without paying for the fixed IP, your IP is not going to change that often.

I seem to get a new one each day unless I disconnect from the internet for 15 minutes, which seems to provoke it into providing a new one. As you can imagine, that has proven very useful at times.

AJ

Different ISP, obviously.

AJ

The number of accounts per IP address really doesn't matter. Households typically have multiple devices that can connect to the internet and log into SOL. Between my wife and I, we have four such devices. Assuming just 2 accounts per device, or 8 accounts, that is a lot of accounts we could create.

Furthermore, different ISPs implement their DHCP protocol differently. For some ISPs, you are assigned the same IP address if you log back into the ISP's server within a specific amount of time. When I log out at night, I am assigned a different IP address when I log in the next morning; that is because I exceeded the time limit my ISP set.

I don't see how Lazeez could determine the number of accounts a person has since the person can create accounts using different devices.

My wife has an IPad and cell phone. I have a phone and my desktop computer. Each has a different IP address. We can contact SOL from any of the four IP addresses.

We could be signed on simultaneously from the four devices using four different member ids. Each of those IP addresses could have multiple accounts associated with it.

The IP address SOL responds to must be the device's IP address not the Broadband address or no response would ever get back to the device. The SOL response message would include all the IP addresses of the routers necessary to route the message over the internet including my Broadband connection.

Yes, your computer's assigned an internal IP address by your router.

That address had to be included in the message sent to SOL in order for SOL's reply to reach your computer. If it wasn't when the reply reached your router, the router would not have known which of the devices on your private network should receive the message.

Slight (or perhaps not so slight) technical correction to this.

Most broadband connections use just one IPv4 for the connection with local NAT to handle multiple devices.

IPv6, which is finally starting to become fairly common in home deployments, is a completely different beast. It very seldom uses NAT. Instead, customers are assigned a block of IPv6 addresses.

Once the ISP and router both support IPv6, devices will just suddenly start picking up IPv6 addresses and may well start using them.

SOL has an IPv6 address, so it's entirely possible that readers from different devices within a household may connect to SOL from different IPv6 addresses. In fact, the same device might do so; my laptop seems to have six different IPv6 addresses right now, at least three of which are externally routable.

Given our modern society's belief that they "have a right to whatever they want" and that it should be delivered "exactly when they want it, and how they want it", this saying is kind of a moot point.

But here is the real meaning…

When you buy a horse, especially "back in the day" before equine dentistry, you have to check the teeth for uneven wear or damage.
A horse that cannot chew and grind its food properly will suffer sickness and malnutrition.
Nobody wants to pay good money for a sickly animal.

A "gift horse" literally meant a FREE horse.

So the saying was basically that you shouldn't scrutinize "free stuff" too closely, and just be thankful that it is being given to you.

I know…
A lost concept in todays world (and the world of SOL it seems) BUT, it is still good advice.

"Free stuff" CAN be eliminated if you criticize the giver or the stuff too much.

whilst 'indifferent' me says just to ignore them

That's the correct 'me'.

Don't feed trolls and they go away.

For the moment, I'm going with the ignore option.