On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 04:43:52PM +0100, jdd wrote:
no. it's a load balancing problem between servers, most of the users shut down the computer a night, so the servers needs to be re-balanced from time to time.
That could be the case in France, although I believe it to be utter and complete bollocks. Especially when you see that DHCP can give you a fixed IP adress. In Belgium when you take a more expensive account type, you will still be connected to the identical infrastructure. You will get a fixed IP adress with those, that is the main difference. re-balancing does not mean that they need to throw away your IP adress and give you a new one. They could give you a semi-fixed IP adress that is released after 24 hours of not being connected with a certain MAC adress. That way you will have the same IP adress as long as you are connected. If you are disconnected for longer then 24 hours (say over the weekend) then you get a new IP adress.
Dynamic DNS should help you there a bit, as long as you can live with 1 minute timeouts from time to time.
don't know. dyndns don't solve the IP problem. need to know is the sending server looks at the name or at the IP once the connexion is running
I was refering to the domain part, not the IP part. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau