On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:03:44PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:20:00PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: > > Pigeon wrote: > > > How do I get an unbiased and definitive answer as to whether it is > > > "really" dynamic or static? > > > > In your case.... I don't think you can > > Was beginning to have unpleasant suspicions of the kind... Have now managed to get in touch with someone more clued-up in my ISP's support staff and have got an answer which makes sense: > From our point of view, you receive a static IP address because > when you sign up for our service, you will be given an IP address > and will use that IP address for the length of your service with > us, assuming no changes such as requesting an IP block. > > SORBS, on the other hand, regard such IP addresses as dynamic > because if you were to leave us, the IP address would become > available for use by another customer. > > There is nothing we can do to change this, our network team has > contacted SORBS and others to discuss the situation, but at this > moment in time, there continues to be a difference in > classification of static. So there we have it... I have a static IP but SORBS call it dynamic because another customer could get it if I left... It would be nice to be able to get an IP assigned to me for life, that I could take to a different ISP if I decided to switch... (Sorry to drag this thread up again but I didn't like to leave this loose end dangling in public :-) ) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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