----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b at dd-b.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:37 PM Subject: Re: Linux Newbie (WAS RE: [TCLUG] [OT] - Jamie Ostrowski) > "Spencer J Sinn" <ssinn at qwest.net> writes: > > > I use qwests DSL service and have not had any problems running several > > machines on the line. > > Ditto. > > > If you are going to use an internal network, get the external modem > > (well, its really a router, but qwest calls it a modem. It is the > > Cisco 675 or the 678 IIRC). You will get assigned a dynamic IP, but > > it only changes if you turn off the router (or qwest flushes the DSL > > pools). > > My experience before I got the static IPs in (so back in 1999) was > that the IP changed at least once a day. > I switched to static IPs almost a year ago, but even back when I had the dynamic IP I don't think it changed for about nine months. The DHCP lease time was fairly short (4 hours I think), but my PC was occasionally down for a day or so without getting a different IP. Given that experience, I probably should have stayed dynamic but I was planning to host a biz site. Someday I'll probably go back to dynamic to save $ and use a dyanmic DNS service like you suggest below. And I think your "guess" is correct; I recall needing to install an updater agent on your PC. > > It is very easy to use NAT to run services out. The only downside is > > there is no DNS for it; a person wanting to access the webpage or > > mailserver would have to use the IP address. Other DSL providers > > offer static IP addresses, but I don't know anything about > > those. Someone else on the list will. > > USWest leases me "8" static IPs, but they get $15/month for it (ick). > > There are dynamic DNS providers who let you have DNS names pointing to > dynamic IPs. I haven't needed it, so I don't know how they do it (do > you run a local utility that keeps them updated on the current IP, I'd > guess?) And of course there's the question of whether the agreement > allows you to run services. Mine does, but I'm 768K DSL under their > SOHO division, not personal. > -- > David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / dd-b at dd-b.net > SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ > Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >