RE: Dynamic IP...

["Doktor Faustus" <faustus@telusplanet.net>]

Is there a way to get it to assign a different IP every time the lease
expires?  A security minion from my ISP has contacted me, threatening to cut
off my DSL service if my IP doesn't change soon.  It would be easier to just
comply than to explain.  Also, I think this may pose a problem to anyone
using a dynamic DNS service such as dyndns.org.  If I remember correctly,
they boot you off thier service if your IP stays the same for more than 30
days.

Thank you all for your help.



dhcpd will only re-assign you a new ip if all available ip's are used
and it's had to re-assign your ip to another machine while you're not
on the network ..

Penned by Saad Kadhi (Home Tech Accnt) on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:31:07AM
+0100, we have:
|
|
| Doktor Faustus wrote:
|
| > The dynamic IP assigned to one of my ethernet interfaces is not changing
| > when its lease expires.  Is something else required other than the
default
| > DHCP setup during the initial installation?  /var/db/dhclient.leases
reveals
| > that when the lease expires, the exact same IP is assigned as a
| > "fixed-address".  I am using the default /etc/dhclient.conf file and
have
| > not added "fixed-address [ip address]" statement to it.  What am I
missing
| > or doing wrong?
| Maybe this is the way it is supposed to be .... I am too using dhcp & my
| IP address is never changed when my machine is online.
|
| I'm no dhcp expert but I think that the client is designed in such a way
| that when the lease is due to expire, it talks with the dhcp server to
| "refresh" the lease. Otherwise, suppose you are downloading a big file.
| If your dhcp address change meanwhile, you have to restart over your
| download :) ...
|
| My thought-0.1beta