Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers?

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jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Finally :D thank you so much!

So basically VOIP is “cheating” because its not actually handled by the network directly, the phone company pays for always-online servers, and phone(s) reach out to those server every time they change networks, in order to be able to route calls to them.

Which also means! it is possible to do the same thing for computers, but it requires having

  1. A static IP
  2. An always online server
  3. The device needs a daemon that tries to connect to a always online server, and proves itself
  4. that server needs to manually reroute traffic (through a VPN or some other means) to the device, wherever it might be

Which also explains why general network providers wouldn’t want to create the infrastructure to always keep track of discovering devices as they changed networks: not keeping track is less expensive. (And that’s on top of the legacy approach of local networks and desktops.

Thats a sizable edit!

Yeah 😅 I didnt want it to be this complicated, but I didnt see how else to explain that current addressing systems don’t meet the same need as a phone number.

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