Re: comcast dhcp leases

2009-08-26 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 08/25/2009 07:28 PM, Chris wrote: I just checked mine, and according to my router, the lease time is 4 days. maybe it's only certain areas. I checked mine last night (Comcast in Billerica MA) and it had a remaining lease time of 2 days, 22 hours. -Mark

comcast dhcp leases

2009-08-25 Thread jkinz
Hi all - I notice that comcast has dropped its dhcp lease times down to about 15 minutes, it used to be a number of hours, which is rather longer. I wonder if its possible to somehow have the dhcp requests ask for a longer lease period? Anyone know, how If its possible? Jeff -- Some of this

Re: comcast dhcp leases

2009-08-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 08/25/2009 09:23 AM, jk...@kinz.org wrote: Hi all - I notice that comcast has dropped its dhcp lease times down to about 15 minutes, it used to be a number of hours, which is rather longer. I wonder if its possible to somehow have the dhcp requests ask for a longer lease period? Anyone

Re: comcast dhcp leases

2009-08-25 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 09:29 -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote: On 08/25/2009 09:23 AM, jk...@kinz.org wrote: Hi all - I notice that comcast has dropped its dhcp lease times down to about 15 minutes, it used to be a number of hours, which is rather longer. I wonder if its possible to somehow

Re: comcast dhcp leases

2009-08-25 Thread Dan Jenkins
On 08/25/2009 09:23 AM, jk...@kinz.org wrote: Hi all - I notice that comcast has dropped its dhcp lease times down to about 15 minutes, it used to be a number of hours, which is rather longer. I wonder if its possible to somehow have the dhcp requests ask for a longer lease period?

Re: comcast dhcp leases

2009-08-25 Thread Pete Snider
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Lloyd Kvampyt...@venix.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 09:29 -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote: On 08/25/2009 09:23 AM, jk...@kinz.org wrote: Hi all - I notice that  comcast has dropped its dhcp lease times down to about 15 minutes, it used to be a number of

Re: comcast dhcp leases

2009-08-25 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 08/25/2009 09:29 AM, Mark Komarinski wrote: They may be getting ready to give you a new IP address or otherwise change your networking configuration. If that's the case, a 15 minute lease time is advantageous. I agree, that seems likely. One note, my parents on Verizon DSL in NJ were

Re: comcast dhcp leases

2009-08-25 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 08/25/2009 09:55 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: This weekend I got burned by comcast suppressing DNS lookup errors. I really like my Comcast business connection but I'm using OpenDNS (with their 'helpful' bits turned off) over it. In the BIND options block: forwarders {