On 01/14/2013 01:58 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, King Beowulf wrote: > >> I've had various DSL and cable providers over the years, and never found >> my dynamic IP to change very often. With Comcast now and my IP hasn't >> changed in a year! Checking very 15 minutes seems to be a bit overkill. >> Typically, you will have a IP lease time and then only swap out when the >> modem reboots. For the small game server I run under my desk, I typically >> have dyndns only check once every 24hrs. > Ed, > > Ever since Frontier took over Verizon Northwest's land lines and stopped > supporting static IP addresses (at least for ISPs like Aracnet/SpiritOne), I > get a new IP address frequently. It's slowed down some now but I was getting > 30-40 changes a day (usually from the evening to the next morning). Now I > see only 3-4 every day or two. Before I started checking frequently I'd > often log in early in the morning and find that mail stopped arriving some > time during the previous evening or night. Then I'd need to find my current > IP address and manually update the DNS servers. PITA. > > Yeah, I know that DHCP leases are supposed to be longer, but apparently no > one told Frontier about that. > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
that's insanity. i can't imagine this makes managing their network any easier, i wonder why they'd have such a short lease cycle? -- Nathan _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
