G T Smith said the following on 07/30/2009 06:31 AM:
I think this is usually a policy for commercial rather than technical reasons. Your modem may support it (my elderly ADSL router does), but your ISP may object to you using it because they would prefer you to buy further services from them, or not offer assistance if you have problems as they may not be willing to incur the additional support costs for service they are not making money on.
I have been aware of reports that some providers have actively blocked DynDNS related traffic. As you said YMMV
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