[HECnet] Losing my fixed IP

[Robert Jarratt]

-----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.