[HECnet] Connections?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-05-03 02:11, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>> The setup under RSX do not really have any problems with dynamic IP ...
> 
>    The problem with the VMS Multinet is that it will only accept a dotted IP for a DECnet tunnel.  It won't do a DNS lookup on a name.  That means any time an IP changes, somebody (me!) has to hand edit a command script and change the IP.  Not especially difficult, but a hassle.

Yeah, I can see that that is a bit annoying. However, for the RSX 
implementation, you do not even have to enter the remote address if 
using TCP and you are the listening side.
(And it does use DNS, but does not reevaluate the address before each 
connection.)

   Johnny

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