-----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 11:12 To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Cc: Paul_Koning at Dell.com; md.benson at gmail.com Subject: Re: [HECnet] Losing my fixed IP On 2013-06-15 16:59, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote: On Jun 15, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-06-13 08:23, Mark Benson wrote: Due to the limits on our ability to get internet service of any decent speed, we're having to change packages meaning we will lose out fixed IP in November. I'd like to work towards being able to stay on HECnet before then using STAR69 to maintain my connection. Well, do you know if you'll get different addresses often? Many ISPs give dynamic IP addresses, but you actually stay on the same address for months, which makes it a rather small problem. I haven't had a change in address in over 6 months myself. And even if you do, with dynamic DNS you still have a hostname that stays fixed. All you need is for the things that connect to you, or check your address, to be able to deal with names. Well, they also need to recheck every so often... :-) My bridge program, for example, only do name resolution when processing the config file. Johnny Multi-Watch's check interval is configurable by the user - a system-wide logical actually. -Steve