From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 06:39:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA25033 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 06:39:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA25019 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 06:39:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01202; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:41:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902161441.JAA01202@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: DHCP weirdness ? In-Reply-To: <36C9399B.48CCDAC7@telspace.alcatel.fr> from HERBELOT Thierry at "Feb 16, 99 10:25:47 am" To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr (HERBELOT Thierry) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:41:04 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG HERBELOT Thierry wrote, > Chris Peltier wrote: > > The Cable providers do this to prevent customer from running > > servers on their network. They don't want to block inbound > > syn connections so instead they change IPs. But cable providers supply DNS. You can still find a server by name. What would changing IP addresses do? > ( other questions would be : have other ppl on the list had the same > problem ? what is the policy of @home / Road-Runner ? ) I have been a @Home subscriber since October. My IP address has never changed. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message