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[Ben Sgro]

Hello,

Woah - I've never heard of such a thing. I've been using dydns for 
almost 4 years now, my IP rarely changes,
and I've never had an interruption of service.

Did they specifically say they canceled your account due to "lack of 
dynamicness" heh?
Strange -

- Ben

Michael Hernandez wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 16:04 -0400, David Mintz wrote:
>   
>> Over the yearsI have been through several DSL providers that went
>> belly up or otherwise became unacceptable (i.e., Speakeasy after it
>> got bought), and I have more recently been with Comcast, and with all
>> those that were dynamic IP I have never had any trouble thanks to
>> dyndns.org. Now the Linksys router I use has a whats-its, dynamic ip
>> updater client built right in, and it's been flawless. Interestingly,
>> none of these ISPs has blocked port 80 on me.
>>     
>
> Since we're OT here, I'll throw in that if your IP does change, but
> doesn't change often, dyndns gets mad and cancels your account for not
> updating enough. What I did to get around that is write a shell script
> that checks whatismyip.com (via it's automation specific page) and if
> the IP of the machine has changed, my script emails me to tell me.
>
> --Mike H
>
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