OpenEuphoria

RE: Keep Connect Active?

• Posted by acran at readout.fsnet.co.uk Nov 21, 2002
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I've not investigated this myself but someone told me that a common way
that ISP's limit your connect time is to do some fancy magic with a dynamic
DNS entry for the IP address that gets allocated to you for the duration of
your connection.  When the TTL (time to live) expires on that entry so does
your connection.

This means that just ping'ing any old IP address at regular intervals won't
be good enough to keep the connection open.  I would recommend using a tool
like nslookup to resolve names to IP addresses and addresses to names on a
regular basis.  Build up a pool of names and addresses to query at random
to avoid caching anomolies.  Also make sure you regularly ping your ISP's
DNS servers as well.  This is reported to be a good way to keep your
connection open.

As I said this is all word of mouth and I haven't tested any of this.
Personally if I ran an ISP and wanted to limit connect time I would
probably have a background process that ran every minute and checked the
duration of all open connections.  Any over the defined threshold would get
canned.  No amount of pinging or whatever would fool such a basic tactic.
YMMV.

Regards,

Andy Cranston.

At 11:06 PM 11/21/02 +0000, you wrote:
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>Should be fairly easy to do with Win32Lib.  Just create a timer that 
>opens a webpage using shellExecute.  Let me know if you want an 
>example...
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>-- Brian
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>C. K. Lester wrote:
>> Anybody got a nice little EUPHORIA hideaway proggie that will keep an
>> internet connection busy, maybe pinging something every 10 minutes or 
>> so?
>> or, better yet, at random intervals, just to fool any clever ISP. :)
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