-----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner- hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Gregg Levine Sent: 15 June 2013 21:10 To: hecnet at update.uu.se Subject: Re: [HECnet] Losing my fixed IP On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Robert Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote: -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner- hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: 15 June 2013 16:12 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 I built the user mode router to do periodic DNS queries asynchronously so it will automatically get updated, provided you use a service like dyndns, and without any pauses waiting for DNS to respond. Hello! Robert if I remember correctly, it was originally built to run first on a R.Pi device, and as a service on Windows? (That should be a statement not a question, but I'm surmising my way across this thread.) Actually my primary platform is Windows, so that is where it is tested most. I have also run it on the R.Pi but not that much to be honest. Others have played with it on various Unix flavours. Regards Rob