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On Tuesday 08 January 2002 10:03 pm, HSI System Engineer wrote:
> 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.
Is this to make things more fine grained, or "highly granular"
as us CompSci-types like to say? Is this so cox.net will only
need a smaller block of IP addresses, since Joe AverageUser
turns his computer off at night, and doesn't use it every night
and thus you can reclaim his address?
> 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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