Subj : Re: IPv6 connection
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Tue Jun 06 2017 10:22:00

-=> Kees van Eeten wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 KvE>  I know I can, but I see no need to do it now. Changes are sparse and
 KvE> far
 KvE>  apart. My DNS hoster is a not for profit, that I a a member of. No
 KvE> need
 KvE>  to load their services for just the occasion that I would want a quick
 KvE>  update.

 KvE>  Shortening the TTL in anticipation of a change, was not a possibillity
 KvE> now,
 KvE>  as I could not see this coming.

Fair enough. 

 KvE>  Getting a static address may not be a option for some. I know some
 KvE> ISP's
 KvE>  deliberately change dynamic adresses every x hours.

Yes, again a pain.  I'm able to pay a little more to gusrantee that static IP.

 KvE>  I am lucky that I have a static address on my ADSL. But e-mail
 KvE> blacklist
 KvE>  consider it dynamic.

Yes, the email blacklists are highly suspect in my opinion.  Useful for
applying a weighting factor (e.g. as an input to SpamAssassin) to help
determine if email is or isn't spam, but problematic when used alone.

 KvE>  My Cable address is dynamic, with a lease time of over a 4 weeks.
 KvE>  If I do not release the address for some time, I get the same address,
 KvE>  I have had the current one for a couple of years already.

 KvE>  Changes in the past were mainly due to restucturing and hardware
 KvE> repalcement
 KvE>  by the ISP. I have never changed the mac address of the hardware I use
 KvE>  to connect to this ISP. It is the same as with my first connect.

That's not too bad.  I had a similar situation when I was on cable Internet
years ago.


.... I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure.
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