Re: lynx-dev "Looking up ... "

[Philip Webb]

980624 Larry Virden wrote: 
> when caching IP addresses, in cases where IPs are dynamically allocated,
> the cached address may cause you more grief than not.
> Certainly that's the case folk found on AOL, Compuserve, etc....
 
i thought IPs were the basic `GPS co-ordinates' of cyberspace:
when, how & why are they dynamically allocated?
how many IPs might be affected: eg is it likely newspapers would be?
or is it something esoteric eg for video fans?

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