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[dbee]

I'm wondering whether anyone out there monitors their IP address ?
Something you might do if you run a server.

I'm particularly interested in the turnover rate of IP's from the KT ISP. But also interested in other rates, mainly out of curiosity.

So, how long do you get to rent your IP for, before they yank it off you and replace it with another ????

cheers,

[ejmlab]

Last year when I was with KT I think the lease was for a minute. If you type fast you can grab it by entering it into the manual area. Then just don't shut down and you can keep it for a long time. Or if you have a wifi router or really any router you might be able to grab it and enter it manually into your router which is always on. Give it a try.

Cheers

[Giant]

ejmlab, I am not sure what you are talking about... I am with KT on a VDSL connection and I keep the same IP for days if not weeks before it changes. Of course I never turn my modem off either. If you do turn your modem off everyday then you will get a new IP every day as well.

If you do want to run your own server at home like I do then use a free dynamic ip monitor app like www.no-ip.com.

[dbee]

Thanks guys,

I'm using the www.dyndns.com service as it is, but I just learned that they actually have a pay service that lets you install some software that updates their dns servers for your own domain whenever your ip changes.

So in otherwords you can use www.myserver.com instead of www.myserver.dyndns.com. It sounds fairly cool, but they say that the latency might be a couple of secs/mins. I want to know how often my ip changes because a few secs/mins every couple of days is no big deal, but every hour or so would be kinda annoying.

My KT ip hasn't changed for about 36hrs now, so I guess that'll do nicely

[Gord]

[Giant]

@Gord

Since the name stays the same, it can take just minutes to update.

You are thinking when you change the name, it takes days to update DNS. But anyway, www.no-ip.com lets you download an app that will monitor your ip and update their DNS records. It works very well and does not take days to update the new IP, so I get no interuption.

[ejmlab]

Giant,

I'm not sure why your setup was different from mine. When I initially signed up with KT years ago on ADSL the IP would only renew with a system reboot. But last year when I had an account with KT the lease was only 1 minute. Perhaps it was the plan I was on or the modem configuration. Since it was a KT modem I coudn't reconfigure it so I'd just wait for a new lease and then quickly enter it into manual settings and then I'd be good to go for as long as my machine was up and running. With a reboot it would try to grab the manually assigned IP and succeed if it was available. If the IP had been already grabbed from the pool then I'd have to return to DHCP, recieve a new lease and manually add it. Pain in the arse.

Cheers

[Giant]

I understand what you are saying. Dynamic IP is a pain in the but. But for me my address uses a hostname.no-ip.com and thats fine with me.

[dbee]