- Optimum IP address Lease times
- Posted by arnb on October 6th, 2003
Anyone else getting either one hour or four day IP address lease times. The
lease used to last about a month. I found it when I could not connect and
noticed Kernel32.dll(which I had blocked in my Outpost firewall software)
attempting to connect to the net every five minutes.
- Posted by VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG on October 6th, 2003
In article <blqnkg$dvbkd$1@ID-128292.news.uni-berlin.de>, arnb <arnbRemoveThis@Arnb.org> writes:
I see lease times of three+ days with optonline. I use it *only* for news
(with a very restricted set of rules in the DECbrouter90T2a running Cisco
IOS) and to allow the kids to play on the PeeCee without having the PeeCee
anywhere physically on my backbone and T1.
Unless there is some network outage with optonline, which has gotten much
better in the last year, I see the same IP address renewed time and time
again. I've railed here against optonline's poor support but the service,
once the initial roll-out kinks and hitches were worked out, has been not
too bad.
I don't believe they have ever issued a lease for a month. You might have
seen the same address for periods that long but the lease time is not that
long. Their DHCP addresses tend to be renewed with the same IP number if
nothing upsets their system.
Why do you try to connect every five minutes?
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"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"
- Posted by arnb on October 9th, 2003
On or about 10/6/2003 7:47 AM, it came to pass that VAXman- wrote:
it's free, fast, carries no binaries, requires initial sign up.
- Posted by VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG on October 9th, 2003
In article <bm3kll$hlm7k$1@ID-128292.news.uni-berlin.de>, arnb <arnbRemoveThis@Arnb.org> writes:
I agree.
....and requires username/password authentication. I like the newsreader
I've used for the past 15 (maybe even more) years. It does not have any
provision for username/password but it allows me to read and edit posts
with the same powerful editor I use for everything else on my systems and
I'm not giving that up. It's not bogged down my bloated GUI crap either.
I'd *pay* for a newsfeed but can't seem to find one that will allow news
access based wholly on my IP address -- unless I want to vomit up money
like the aftermath of a college weekend keg party.
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VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)COM
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"
- Posted by Joerg Keith on October 11th, 2003
arnb wrote:
That is IMO the best news server around, by far.
Joerg
