Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3100 mails)

[houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 02:02:40PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Those IP changes seem to happen randomly, perhaps when they are doing 
> maintenance or some thing. Just in case, I reconnected my router to my 
> UPS: perhaps I had a micro-power outage that reset my adsl router.

It could be done on purpose. In Belgium many ADSL connections loose their
IP after 36 (I think) hours. This is a pure business decision so people
who want a fixed IP will need to pay more.
It could be that this is the case with you as well. Best ask your
provider.

> No big deal, I don't have an Internet domain name to keep updated ;-)

Dynamic DNS should help you there a bit, as long as you can live with 1
minute timeouts from time to time.

houghi
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