I'm not so sure about the address being static until you reboot. I know some
US providers do a renewal of ip address leases every day or so.

The dns updating you are suggesting is effectively what services like
dyndns.org do now. for example i can have a domain (or subdomain) name like
rout.dyndns.org. A client runs on my machine (dialup, non fixed ip
adsl/cable/ultra/whatever) which detects changes in the world visible ip and
reports it to dyndns.org which answers name queries with the right address.
There are clients available for various os's.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete" <speed@advcomm.co.nz>
To: <adsl@unixathome.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 2:44 PM
Subject: RE: Xtra Jetstart?

> The same as they already do. It's dynamic in the sense that if you restart
> your modem and re-establish the PPP connection, odds are you'll get a
> different address.
>
> All a static address is, is a PPP lease maxed out so it never expires for
> your line.

So therefore your address will remain static until your PPP session dies and
restarts (somtimes weeks in between).

In fact this would happen so infrequently that I would be happy updating an
external DNS server with the new IP each time (scripted of course :) and
setting
that A record to have a TTL of 10 seconds.

Tis not static, but good enough :)

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