Dynamic DNS vs. Hard-Wired IPv4 Connections

["Jim Fleming" <JimFleming@ameritech.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hesham Soliman (EAB)" <hesham.soliman@era.ericsson.se>
> 
>   > "Reachable" in what sense?  I can see this argument for
>   > the IPv6 PDP Context, since you might run a peer-to-peer
>   > service over IPv6 for messaging, or whatever...
>   > 
>   > But, what advantage is there to having an IPv4 PDP
>   > Context up all of the time?  If you are behind any type
>   > of NAT (IPv4 NAT or NAT-PT), you won't be reachable
>   > from the outside, anyway.
> 
> => I wasn't referring to any particular solution
> or type of address. The point I am making is that
> regardless of the type of address you have, if you
> do not have a PDP context up then you are not reachable.
> 
> Even if you have private v4 addresses and you need to
> be reachable by someone else inside the same domain
> they cannot reach you if you don't have a PDP
> context. BTW if you do have an IPv6 address you 
> are reachable from the outside (by other v6 hosts).
> 
> So you should always have a PDP context and be assigned
> at least one address.
> 

Assigned at least one "address" or "domain name" ?

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