Carlos E. R. wrote:
Most people, with our current Ipv4 connections, get a new IP the instant there is a glitch in the connection. Be it the wind moving the copper cables or the router being unplugged.
That is not the way DHCP is supposed to work. You're supposed to have a lease time, during which you "own" the address. As long as you renew before the lease expires, you should retain the same address.
I know, but ISPs perverted that on most places. Yours is highly unusual.
I'm not so totally sure about that - Bluewin, the provider of the incumbent Swiss telco does the same. What's unusual is that James's connection has a fixed hostname, specific to his hardware.
Very funny when on police movies they find the IP of the bad guy and correlate to a house on seconds. Ha!
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