[PLUG-TALK] The IP Address Fandango

[Dale Snell]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 06:32:57 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>    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

=======%<------- snip! ------->%=======

> 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.
> 

You're not the only one they do this to.  A while back, they were
changing mine every half hour on the half hour.  I've no idea why.

--Dale

-- 
Hanlon's Razor:  Never ascribe to malice that which can be
adequately explained by stupidity.
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