Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:12:22 +0000, "Luis P. Mendes" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in > comp.lang.python: > > > >>I'm beggining to suspect that the problem has to do with a discontinual >>of service of the ISP. It provides me a dynamic IP address not a static >>one. >> > > And many ISPs force a "lease renewal" after some period of time > (hours or days). > The DHCP protocol is supposed to allow lease renewal throughout the lease period, and clients are normally expected to renew their lease halfway through the lease period. So a continuously-connected system should retain the same IP address.
If ISPs are *forcing* lease renewal they are perverting DHCP. Network service should be continuous as long as a system remains continuously connected. > [...] regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd www.holdenweb.com Love me, love my blog holdenweb.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
