On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:44:43 -0400, Darren R. Weber wrote:
>Is there a way to force pump to get a different address? Here is the reason I ask.
>
>I know I can tell it to release, and then restart it but it just gets the same
>address again. I am on DSL and some idiot in Miami has apparently set up my IP as a
>nameserver. I have ipchains running and denying almost everything so there is no
>immediate problem, but I also log some packets and this stuff is filling my log with
>garbage every two seconds. I have tried to stop this several times in various ways,
>even to the extent of crashing the box on the other end. (It's a windows box. .
>.did a little digging on it :-) ) That worked but only temporarily and if I
>continue to do that I'm going to get myself into trouble. So I figured the easy
>thing to do would be to try to get a different IP.
>
>Is the only way to release my current IP and wait until the server has had time to
>give out the old one?
Pretty much. The thing about DHCP is that the server maintains a
database...that database keeps track of the IP address and the MAC
address to which it was last assigned. It keeps that information
until the lease runs out.
The other thing to consider is whether or not your DSL provider has
hardcoded your system for that IP.
The other possibility is that you could call your provider and ask
them to reassign your IP address.
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