Hi,

Any idea how i can have a dynamic IP .. currently have static with PLusnet
BB, using Netgear Router.

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"Troll Slayer - Troll-Alert.net" <ian@ikg.org.uk> wrote in message
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Currently they only offer static IPs - however it's been said that they're
looking at enabling dynamic IPs in the future.

Only poss on dial up

"Chris" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
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What's the advantage of a dynamic IP? Are you thinking from the point of
view of it being harder to hack because the IP address isn't constant?

"Martin Underwood" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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No, just thinking i am fed up of trollsspoofing my IP! At least with a
dynamic, it will change every time i reset the router. Having major troll
moments here .. need to get rid of static: krystian.plus.com

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Troll Slayer - Troll-Alert.net wrote:
Not neccesarily so as some servers 'bind' the IP to specific MACs, so
unless your router is off for a long enough time for the IP to be needed &
allocated elsewhere you still get the same IP.

My last ISP allocated dynamic IP & AFAIR the only time it actually changed
was when they reset the servers, even a release & renew normally just gave
the same IP as before...

"Troll Slayer - Troll-Alert.net" <ian@ikg.org.uk> wrote in message
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But will it? My experience with DHCP is that when it renegotiates an IP
address (eg by resetting a router or doing ipconfig /release + ipconfig
/renew) you very often get the same address that you had before.

What sort of precautions can be taken? While you're connected, won't there
always be an entry pointing to your computer's (or router's) public name,
even if the associated IP address may change occasionally?

On 20 Mar 2005, "Troll Slayer - Troll-Alert.net" wrote:

I'm fairly sure you can ask Plus.Net to remove the entry (so a lookup on the
IP only shows a-b-c-d.plus.com - assumes your IP is a.b.c.d :-) if that can
help in the meantime.



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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:01:45 -0000, "Troll Slayer - Troll-Alert.net"
<ian@ikg.org.uk> wrote:

address to a MAC until it is re-used because the lease time has
expired and there are no "free" addresses. You will need to know the
lease time to know how long you need the router off to have a good
chance of getting a different address - there is no guarantee - or
spoof a MAC address every time.


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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:58:04 -0000, "Martin Underwood"
<me@privacy.net> wrote:

Just a selection of advantages......................(basically,
potential anonymity is at the root):

1) You can't get 'barred' for being 'naughty' on online forums (or at
least if you find you are you can simply reconnect).

2) You can maintain anonymity on those forums in the same way

3) You can take advantage of a free 1Gb Usenet account (including
binaries) from a company like Yottanews
(http://www.yottanews.com:8080/index.html ). They operate under the
mistaken impression that most broadband accounts have a fixed IP. With
a dynamic IP you can effectively get as much capacity as you like.

4) If you sign up to a 'pay' Usenet server (or indeed any 'pay'
service on the net) and you'd like to share the costs with a friend
you can do so without arousing suspicion because they get used to you
always connecting with a different IP address. This is especially the
case if your friend is using the same ISP and gets one of the same
block of IP addresses.

5) If you're the subject of a 'denial of service' attack you can
simply reconnect.

And then the disadvantages..............:

1) It's difficult to operate a webserver (or any other kind of server)
on your PC without faffing around with services like www.noip.com .
It's a particular problem when rebooting a remote PC using something
like PCAnywhere and the remote PC has dynamic IP.

2) If you're connected to a server and you have to re-boot then if you
have a fixed IP you can often restart what you were doing where you
left off.


The list is endless but for most people the balance of advantage lies
with a dynamic IP address.



Joe

On 20 Mar 2005 22:31, Joe <anonymous@anon.co.uk> wrote:

I'm sure there are a number of people who would challenge that suggestion.

I'd certainly challenge dynamic tipping the balance, but you must understand
I use one ISP with a fixed IP and another with a dynamic IP (both ADSL :-)

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"Chris" <no@spam.com> wrote in
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Well bugger me (no not literally...), that's changed since I last looked.
A few years back all accounts came with dynamic IPs and you clicked a
button on the portal to get a static IP.

I must have blinked when they took away the dynamic option.

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On 21 Mar 2005 20:45, in uk.telecom.broadband, cw wrote:

hardly... this is u.t.b and if the post was in uk.net.providers one might
ask "for dial-up or ADSL" as the situation depends very much on which one
is using... for ADSL static is currently the only option, for dial-up it
would appear the way you remember... dynamic unless static is requested.

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Peter M <us-mail@rocketmail.com> wrote in
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I know that, I have checked and it never used to be that way. When we
initially got ADSL it was exactly the same as with our old dialup. It came
with dynamic and I turned on the static IP.

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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:31:39 +0000, Joe <anonymous@anon.co.uk> wrote:

<snip>
You mean for most of the 1% for whom it makes any difference at all.

That is a rather unusual definition of "most" :-)

Unless you are running servers, or have a reason to want to be
slightly harder to track down, it really makes very little difference.
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On 23 Mar 2005 22:30 GMT, in uk.telecom.broadband, cw wrote:

OK... I was using Plus.Net ADSL for almost 2 years, not knowing the earlier
history, and (wrongly) assumed it was never dynamic based on the posts I saw
in the Plus.Net newsgroups. Peter.



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