[hblug] IP Addresses: Static or Dynamic

[Adrian Kitto]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Perry Spiller wrote:

>
> Responding to comments made:
>
> About the time we talked about this last,
> (the November meeting), we agreed that
> IP addresses seemed to change on
> a randomised basis, whether the external
> ADSL modem was 'powered down' or not.
>
> So, after that meeting, I checked twice a day
> using the Whatsmyip web site. I confirmed
> that the IP addresses I was "at" were dynamic
> and changed on an unpredictable basis.
>
> BUT for the last week or so, even after
> shutting down my IPCOP server AND
> ADSL modem, (which I didn't do in the
> earlier tests) my IP address has remained
> constant.
>
> Perry

I have heard the same in nzadsl over the last couple days, a couple of ISP
staff think that some exchanges/RAN's are a bit munged cause users on the
256/256 plan are getting FS/FS by accident (they are not paying for it)
and the ISP is having to rate limit them.

I belive this is either fixed, or very close to being fixed

Cheers

Adrian