Keeping Track of Dynamic IP AddressesExcerpt From The Unauthorized Guide to the InternetPublished by Que Corporation, 1999 ................ So you've lined up CU-SeeMe, NetMeeting, and all your other conferencing tools, not to mention your multi-player games, but you've found it almost impossible to find anyone. Why? Because nearly everyone with a dial-up connection is assigned a dynamic IP address that changes every time they reconnect to the Net. That IP address is the magic number that enables you to connect to and start communicating with the other computer, but it's impossible to keep track of. You could try calling up your friend and arranging a conference, but that kind of defeats the whole purpose of using the Internet. Some other clever solutions to this problem have been developed, including the following:
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