-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-03-18 at 15:35 +0100, houghi wrote:
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.
It could be on purpose, but in my case I may have an IP change after a two hour connection, several per day, or none at all. I don't keep my PC on continuously, so I haven't checked whether they do it periodically or not. But changing the IP in the middle of an active transmission breaks established connections; an ftp connection, for example, breaks, forcing you to login again. So in my case it can be a small power glitch that forced my router to reset and retrain, or something on my ISP side. If I can discover a way to log the IP number the router gets, then I could investigate. I can ssh to my router and learn the IP, but it is not easy to automatize.
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.
It doesn't matter, at least for the moment :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEHHXFtTMYHG2NR9URArL/AJ9GGNWh0BZFOfeSMq6jQVeQujVdpACeJ/B2 5qgWhLaNk0grZbY7Somf6xw= =XyAk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----