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Am 05.01.22 schrieb Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 in IPV6:

Hallo Michiel,

MvdV> I never understood why providers still issue dynamic adresses to their
MvdV> customers. It made sense in the time of dial up. But now with "always
MvdV> on" connections...

I think, today it is a way to sell their 'business' rates which  
include static IPv4 and IPv6 prefix...

MvdV> Anyway, I too have a dynamic IPv4 address and a dynamic IPv6
MvdV> pefix. But in practice it is semi static. It does not change
MvdV> often enough to invest time and energy in automatic updates.

My first boss once told me: If something is to be done more than one  
time, it's worth writing a script to automate it :)
But besides, you have to be noticed somehow that the IP/prefix has  
been changed - or how do you know when to manually update your DNS?

Regards,
Anna

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