From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 09:38:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F30437B407 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB2F43FDD for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:38:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.6p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h5IGcJtS096198; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:38:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <3EEFC568.70900@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:32:20 +0200 To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:38:30 -0000 At 9:21 AM -0700 2003/06/18, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >> Unfortunately, this may cost more money than buying a static IP address >> for yourself. > > Someone please explain the above statement made to a guy on cable. I > shut down my server after switching to cable (Internet AND phone, after > Qwest hosed me several times too often), since I thought that static IP > was out of the question on cable. (The cable contract even forbade > dynamic DNS, IIRC.) Do some cable systems offer static IP or is there > some other means to get static IP via cable which I don't know about? Some providers make static IPs available, if you're willing to pay for them. Some don't. It all depends on your provider. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)