SP>  SP>> I know that some of the sysops would like to receive incoming  
 SP>  SP>> connections on the phone so that hotdoged can action as a node.
 SP>  BP> on dynamic ips, where binkp is always open minded :)
 SP> 
 SP> That is the question I asked myself long ago. 

i can help with the dyn-ip problem i think. there are some dyndns sites
offering do a simple ip-check.

as an example: it is enough to open this url once;
http://www.dtdns.com/api/autodns.cfm?id=blackice.bbsindex.com&pw=HERETHEPASS
and the domain blackice.bbsindex.com points to the IP where the ping to urls
came from.

if there be an option to set an DYNDNS provider and a checkinterval as well
in the settings-menue for the node-feature you go the right major way i think.

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