>You would have all of the same problems that a warez/MP3 FTP site would have.

What if it was limited to empeg owners? i.e. it was coded into Hijack, where your empeg connects to someone's else empeg, streams/downloads, and then optionally passes the stream on to you to listen? Hijack would do some challenge/response stuff to make sure that you were talking to another empeg.

Alex

...and put a bit of encryption in it so that only people that were 'licensed' could access the empegs. Then we'd be covered by the DMCA.

You have to pay to change the "first level domain" fror instance
empegcar.com
But it is free to register "second-level domains" like
jane.empegcar.com or hugo.empegcar.com

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)

Close, but not quite.

Top level domains are the .com's and .net's etc...
Second level domains would be the empeg in empeg.com

What you're talking about is a host name.
in loren.empeg.com, loren is the hostname, empeg is the second level domain, and .com is the top level domain. Host names don't have to be registered at all, as they are controlled on the host's dns server.

=]

That would be awesome! Who knows how to code something up like that though?

Sean

www.jane.empegcar.com -> www is the hostname, jane is the third level domain, which is also set'able by Dynamic DNS.

When using dynamic DNS, hostnames also have to be registered, but if you run the DNS server yourself, it is free, and you do it yourself. Some places may charge you money to do change all NS settings.

Marius (Escort Cab + Mark II)

My problem is finding a secure and reliable way of letting people change it remotely. A passworded web interface would probably be best. I don't really want to accept dynamic DNS requests directly via BIND.

This is getting really complicated now

- Trevor

http://www.ddts.org/ has some software that'll run on Linux. I don't know how easy it is to configure the server, and I'm not sure that there's a client for anything other than Linux, but it does at least make a pretense at security.

>That would be awesome! Who knows how to code something up like that though?

Well, I'm guessing Mark Lord would, but (1) he might not have the time, and (2) he might not "agree" with the idea.

Technically, I could probably do it, but I'm not that familiar with Linuxy programming, so it might take a while. It wouldn't actually have to be in the kernel, right? Just a little userland app. Can Hijack auto-launch programs at startup?

Alex