From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 5:50: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E7837B69D for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 05:49:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0FDlVp07152; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 08:47:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A62FF36.7DEC0EB0@mail.iowna.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 08:46:30 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Moses Backman Cc: Dennis Jun , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@gtabug.org Subject: Re: DNS caching, DHCP, /etc/resolv.conf References: <001201c07e83$80c5dc00$0300a8c0@wilma> <20010115082738.E1734@cg22413-a.adubn1.nj.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Moses Backman wrote: > > i'm not sure which cable system you have, but @Home makes lousey use of > DHCP. i have had the service for over 2 years and my ip has never changed. > you can cheat by setting up statically....................... There's no reason why DHCP should be changing the IP all the time. Even across reboots, a client request that it get its old IP back on startup. Read the standard. DHCP is supposed to keep IPs as consistent as possible, it only fluctuates when there are more clients than IPs. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message