On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2014, wes wrote: > > > Possibly a faulty DSL modem? > > wes, > > Not quite. What aracnet told me is that when Frontier bought Verizon's > land lines they changed the DSL routers. The new ones are not > static-IP-address compatible with the routers at aracnet. As I'm not a > hardware or networking professional I accept that such a situation exists. > So, it's specific to aracnet/spiritone and other ISPs with similar > hardware. > > Regardless, it's a serious PITA, as I had the same static IP address > for a > dozen years. > > Rich > A long-lasting DHCP address is different from a static IP address. I still contend that your IP is changing far too often to be normal. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
