Do you want the long or short version? The company or the down to earth
version? VBG... :-)
The service as it is marketed and sold is for residential use, and therefore
there should be no reason to offer IP leases for a period of time longer
than four hours. If the computer remains on-line the lease will renew. As
it currently stands, even if the computer goes off-line the same IP may be
available once it returns on-line.
This is the true way the @Home network was supposed to work. Because of the
management aspect of a dynamic network @Home did not enforce the dynamic
policy.
As a side note if you add to all of the above the fact that ARIN (the entity
that manages IP assignments) is now strictly enforcing the IP utilization
and assignment of IP blocks. All ISPs will be closely monitoring and
managing the use of all public IPS.
I'm sure this situation won't make some people happy. Unfortunately, we are
now all paying for the woes of @Home and other ISPs.
On 1/8/02 9:35 PM, "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@home.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday 08 January 2002 09:18 pm, HSI System Engineer wrote:
>> The IP lease has been shortened until after the cut-over. After that
>> time the computer IP lease will remain at four (4) hours.
>
> Hours?????? Not days????? Why so short?
>
>> On 1/8/02 3:27 PM, "Scott Harney" <scott_harney@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@home.com> writes:
>>>
>>> probably in preparatoin for the cutover. they'll likely go back to
>>> one week lease times. And then your ip will rarely change.
>>>
>>>> On Tuesday 08 January 2002 09:07 am, Joey Kelly wrote:
>>>>>> dhclient-2.2.x: bound to 24.181.111.92 -- renewal in 124239
>>>>>> seconds.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ugh --- that's 39.5 hours.
>>>>
>>>> It's even worse on my NT box! Cox must have changed something,
>>>> because before Christmas, the lease was 1 week...
>>>>
>>>> Cox Guy: is Cox moving towards the "10 minute lease", then change
>>>> address, like ATT does, or is it in preparation for the cutover,
>>>> so that there won't be long-lasting leases cutover?
>>>>
>>>> --
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