>> [...] Frankly the real problem is that the internet was never
>> designed to allow for dynamic IP addresses, and anything we do to
>> hack them in results in one problem or another. Anyway, I don't
>> like this solution much, but I can't offer the right solution
>> either.
> Why not do what some other OSs do - that is, attempt to dial on
> demand via some other mechanism only when the applications needs to,
> and defer socket creation undit the interface is up?
Because most of these solutions will cause more dialling. We
don't want a situation where people complain that 2.2 is costing
them a lot of money because it dials when 2.0 didn't.
Also, the original dyn_addr hack is already in 2.1, it works
the problems are theoretical, and you can switch it off.
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