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Some german ISPs used to force a reset of home internet connections every 24h to trigger IP changes so that static IPs would remain reserved for the business ti
by the8472 6y ago
Some german ISPs used to force a reset of home internet connections every 24h to trigger IP changes so that static IPs would remain reserved for the business tier. The time of the reset could be shifted by preemptively reconnecting at a desired time, they only reset the link after 24h of actual uptime.
- 0xTJ 6y agoI get why they do it, but actually causing issues just to cycle IPs seems like a lot. I've had cases where I have the same IP assigned to me for quite a long time.
- aeyes 6y agoThey already did this on dialup and ISDN, back when routers didn't exist. When DSL first started appearing they just kept doing it. The idea was to not keep unused connections/IPs up, since you didn't have a router you would need to reconnect manually. Also, it made it harder to run servers until we had services like DynDNS. On newer connections it isn't common anymore, especially if you have a voice service.
- Lev1a 6y agoOn my family's FritzBox we can set the time for that connection reset. I think it's somewhere around 04:00.