[TriLUG] broadband option in the Triangle area

[Brian Henning]

dynip.com offers this as well, however for always-on broadband, you 
basically have to script the automatic checking yourself (which I haven't 
done yet, because my IP has changed maybe once in the past 8 months).

Cheers,
~Brian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Zhang" <zhang at clinicaltools.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] broadband option in the Triangle area


> There is a free/commercial service which could solve the dynamic IP 
> problem when some people are running website from home machine with 
> cable/dsl connection. Go to no-ip.com to take a look. Once a little 
> program is up-running at your home machine, it'll check the dynamic IP and 
> automatically match the domain name to changed IP which happens for 
> residential cable/dsl account.
>
> Daniel Z
> Jeff Groves wrote:
>
>> My apologies to you and the others on the list.  I woke up on the wrong 
>> side of the bed this morning.
>>
>> I retract my previous statement concerning TimeWarner.
>>
>> Jeff G.
>>
>> Ben Pitzer wrote:
>>
>>> Well, since those are my servers, it would have to be me.  Or my 
>>> manager.
>>> And, I'm going to go out on a limb on my manager's behalf, and say that
>>> neither of us cares to be labeled as an asshole (well, maybe sometimes 
>>> it's
>>> okay, but this isn't one of them).  Trust me, we have better things to 
>>> do
>>> than hunt you down to mess with you.  Why your IP may have changed, I'm 
>>> not
>>> sure, but it could have to do with some need to move IP scopes between
>>> CMTSes, a power outage at your location, or a number of other 
>>> possibilities,
>>> all of which are hazards of having a residential, or non-static IP
>>> commercial account.  If you depend on that static IP, look into a 
>>> commercial
>>> account.  If you continue to purchase residential service, then caveat
>>> emptor.  Sorry, but them's the brakes.
>>>
>>> I'm not trying to be contentious here.  I just happen to take exception 
>>> when
>>> somebody blames "someone at TimeWarner", especially when that someone is 
>>> me.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ben Pitzer
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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