[PLUG-TALK] The IP Address Fandango

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Oct 12 13:32:57 UTC 2014


   Others with dynamic IP addresses from Frontier Communications write that
their address remains constant for long periods. I must be special, then,
because now that I log the date and time when Frontier moves my address
around the pattern is pretty clear: late afternoon to early the following
morning. Here are the last three days:

2014-10-09 00:30:02 50.38.84.18
2014-10-09 01:30:07 50.38.73.122
2014-10-09 02:30:06 50.38.77.240
2014-10-09 03:30:01 50.38.120.51
2014-10-09 04:30:06 50.38.116.108
2014-10-09 06:30:02 50.38.127.233
2014-10-09 19:30:02 50.38.65.247
2014-10-09 20:30:03 50.38.91.4
2014-10-09 21:30:02 50.38.75.218
2014-10-10 03:30:03 50.38.94.49
2014-10-10 04:30:03 50.38.76.219
2014-10-10 05:30:03 50.38.92.168
2014-10-10 06:30:03 50.38.116.155
2014-10-10 19:30:06 50.38.75.53
2014-10-10 20:30:02 50.38.127.126
2014-10-10 21:30:02 50.38.110.208
2014-10-10 22:30:05 50.38.68.61
2014-10-10 23:30:03 50.38.100.184
2014-10-11 00:30:02 50.38.78.45
2014-10-11 01:30:03 50.38.116.155
2014-10-11 02:30:02 50.38.77.166
2014-10-11 03:30:02 50.38.107.229
2014-10-11 04:30:03 50.38.113.62
2014-10-11 05:30:03 50.38.120.120
2014-10-11 06:30:01 50.38.121.162
2014-10-11 17:30:03 50.38.122.140
2014-10-11 18:30:02 50.38.100.244
2014-10-11 19:30:03 50.38.119.18
2014-10-11 20:30:07 50.109.240.154
2014-10-11 21:30:10 50.38.114.63
2014-10-11 22:30:02 50.38.97.185
2014-10-12 01:30:06 50.38.65.172
2014-10-12 02:30:01 50.38.108.230
2014-10-12 03:30:02 50.38.88.187
2014-10-12 04:30:02 50.38.83.254
2014-10-12 05:30:01 50.38.125.187
2014-10-12 06:30:02 50.38.112.239

   Since the DNS updates work such dynamisism does no harm. But, it would be
nice to learn why the telco does this.

Rich



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