From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.redhat.com (mail.redhat.com [199.183.24.239]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD072FB19 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:39:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) id f87Kd3G04627 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:39:03 -0400 Received: from femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.142]) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id f87Kd3g04623 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:39:03 -0400 Received: from eklhad ([24.17.65.228]) by femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010907203857.UUIJ557.femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com@eklhad> for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:38:57 -0700 To: blinux-list@redhat.com From: Karl Dahlke Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Static IPs Message-Id: <20010907203857.UUIJ557.femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com@eklhad> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:38:57 -0700 X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Reply-To: Karl Dahlke List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Someone described a pseudo-always-on dsl connection from Ameritech, wherein the company drops you if you're not busy, and you wake up with a new ip address. What a frightening thought. I've just started hosting my own web site, on my own machine, and I don't know why I didn't take the plunge long ago. It's easy, and it's fun. There are numerous advantages, and a couple disadvantages. Well anyways, it would be unthinkable if I had such a terrible isp. I certainly can't reprogram all the name servers on the internet every time they decide to give me a new ip address. The cable at-home service doesn't work like that, and I have nothing but good things to say about them. They even tried to help me set up, knowing that I was on Linux. That's pretty rare. Getting back to the IPs; one day we lost the bill, or it got lost in the mail, or whatever, and I was behind, so they turned off the service. I called with my credit card to turn it back on and asked, please please please, can I have my old ip back again. "Sure, we've been saving it for you." Now that's class, and its certainly important to those of us who are hosting our own sites. Karl Dahlke