For the old timers

Jamon Camisso jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Wed Jun 2 21:08:45 UTC 2010


On 06/02/2010 04:08 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 03:28:32PM -0400, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
>> My Rogers IP address hasn't changed for more than a year. Each Rogers  
>> customer also gets a FQDN. I set up a CNAME to a hostname I can remember  
>> so that I don't have to remember cpe-bla-bla-bla and that gives me the  
>> ability to get a remote shell to my machine at home, if I need it.
> 
> I know that, but still a DHCP address that doesn't usually change is not
> the same thing as a static IP.  And you certainly don't get a choice in
> reverse DNS entry on the dynamic IP either.  No idea if teksavvy gives
> you a choice on static IPs.  I would have thought they would.

They're looking into providing static cable ips at the moment. Also,
from what I've read their service won't be throttled :)

Jamon

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