On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 05:21:19PM +0200, Someone wrote: > Michael R. Stork schrieb: > > >It depends on when they do system maintenance. As long as their system > >is up, and you stay connected, you should keep renewing the same IP. > > No, it is not system maintenance here in germany. In fact it's part of the > contract with the ISPs that you will get forcefully disconnected at least > every 24 hours, even on DSL (which uses PPPoE here, so it actually is just > a faster dialup connection). There are no IP leases and you can't influence > what IP you get. This doesn't have a technically reason, its more due > political > and economical reasons.
Uhm, what political and economic reasons? I mean if they don't like servers, then they'd NAT you. > And AFAIK there are more european countries in which > it is handled the same way. > > To say it clear, a fixed IP (even when it is only fixed for a week) is > something > special you have to pay for in germany, and no ISP will give you something > for > free if he can actually charge a good ammount of extra money for it. Capitalism is alive and well in the UK, and yet our dynamic IP addresses usually stay the same for weeks on end... even on the cheap domestic cable setups... -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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