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My ISP lets me have an IP for as long as my ONT is online. If it reboots, I'm likely to get a new address if it's offline long enough. So my ONT is on a UPS. W
by mystified5016 2y ago
My ISP lets me have an IP for as long as my ONT is online. If it reboots, I'm likely to get a new address if it's offline long enough.
So my ONT is on a UPS. We only get power outages once or twice a year, but I havent had my IP change in two years now.
And yeah, when it changes I just go into my DNS and update the records. It's like a five minute job. I could probably automate it if I cared to figure out Hover's API. It'd take probably a dozen resets to get a return on that time investment so I just haven't bothered.
I'm not sure if this is a regular feature of fiber networks or just that my ISP is nice. So much better than DOCSIS when I'd randomly get booted off and given a new address.
- taskforcegemini 2y agomost likely not DOCSIS related, as my ISP behaves with it just like you described your current ISP
- vegarde 2y agoOP here. Yeah, I don't expect this to really change, either, in normal operations. But I'm a home user, I don't pay for a static IP address or a static IPV6 prefix. But I'm a geek/hacker by heart, so curiosity sometimes get to me. I did it because there was things to learn from it.