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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 :-)
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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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