[HECnet] Hi...

[Steve Davidson]

Or you could connect to SG1::.  Your choices are johnny's bridge or Multinet. I can handle either with dynamic addressing. Contact me offline after tomorrow. 

-Steve

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> On Aug 27, 2015, at 08:10, Jarratt RMA <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 27/08/2015, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, after a long absence due to life being what life is sometimes, I'm
>> now in my own apartment with my own Broadband line. Alas I'm still on a
>> dynamic IP. I wondered if anyone had made any progress with allowing us
>> wandering souls to connect to HECnet.
>> 
>> I aim to renew my VMS Hobbyist licenses (hopefully that still works? Did
>> it move to VMSsoftware or is HP still doing it?) and get my VAXstation
>> up and running as well as a couple of RPi's running an older VAX sim
>> with VMS and PDP-11 sim RSX-11M Plus. I may also dabble in using Tru64
>> on my Alpha, if I can dig out some bigger disks for it.
>> 
>> Hoping I can get back into DEC as it's about the only esoteric hardware
>> I have left these days!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Mark @ DECtec.info
>> twitter.com/DECtecInfo
> 
> Welcome back Mark.
> 
> Regarding the dynamic IP, one of the main features of the user mode
> router I wrote was support for dynamic IP. However, it needs your peer
> to use the router really, or implement the same code. I did suggest to
> Johnny that he take my DNS code for that purpose, I am not sure if he
> did so. However, depending on your ISP, your IP address may not
> actually change all that often, mine rarely changes so it is rarely a
> problem and I only have to ask Johnny to restart the bridge at his end
> in order to be back on HECnet.
> 
> If you want to try peering with my router I would be happy to
> accommodate, I am in area 5 and could allocate you a segment of node
> numbers. Performance won't be great because your traffic would be
> coming in and out of my house which is domestic broadband with limited
> upload bandwidth, and I do occasionally restart it.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rob