Changes by my ISP...

[dant]

Looks to me, I will be losing all of my static IP
addresses and am not sure what will happen
to my Internet connections. Depending on what
happens, I may be knocked out of commission for
awhile, and not sure when, if, I will be back online
for awhile, hence this posting.

Here is the email from Spiritone.com:
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Hello,

Due to recent changes in Frontier's network, we find it necessary to
change the way our Frontier DSL connections are configured, which will
also change how your DSL modems are configured.

Within the next two weeks, the way DSL modems are configured to use
SpiritOne's service will change. We will be emailing configuration
instructions on making these changes on supported modems shortly, and
will be available by phone to provide assistance on making these
changes. Alternately, you can bring the modem by our office and we can
configure it for you (please phone first to be sure somebody will be
available to do so).

Unfortunately, with these changes, we are no longer to offer static IP
addresses for DSL, nor can we offer multiple IP addresses on the same
DSL circuit. SpiritOne offers a variety of hosting services,
co-location, and virtual private servers that can be used to replace
the static IP addresses we can no longer provide over Frontier DSL. If
these services interest you, please contact us at sales@SpiritOne.com
as soon as possible and we'll assist in putting together the most
cost-effective and appropriate solution.

Further information (including the exact date of the change) will be
included in a later email.

Thank you for choosing SpiritOne!

The SpiritOne Team
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[ec1968]

Hi Dant

Use of dynamic IP addressing is very common and as long as your equipment is configured correctly it should have no effect on your internet connection.

Cheers

 

[Franco]

Should be fine, unless you have something extra set up with your static IPs?

On the IP4 network we are running out of IP address so not giving static IPs and Host services not selling them is becoming more common.

 

[dant]

Well, from what my ISP told me, Frontier and they could not
come to an agreement in renewing their contract. So my
ISP can no longer support Static IPs over DSL.

For me, it simply means that I had to scramble to find a
reasonable new ISP and there are not that many of them
around, but fortunately, I found one: dsl-only.net. I went
with their SOHO package and picked up 4 static IP addresses
for a little bit more money than my old ISP.

The next step is to get Frontier switch the DSL circuit
from the old ISP to the new ISP, then from there, update
all of my IP addresses and repopulate the DNS root servers.

All of this take time and effort - it is sometimes a PITA.

So, like I said, starting Mon/Tue, it may take 1/2 a week to
a week before I gain any sense of normalcy and that assumes
no monkey wrenches were thrown in...