[BUGS] Shell accounts

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2008-Oct-24 15:33:09 +1100, Dean Hamstead <dean at fragfest.com.au> wrote:
>and receive a full lease time (which is 7 days for optus, no idea for 
>telstra).

Optus give me one day.

>if you are on optus cable you can just 'camp' on an ip, by getting it 
>via dhcp, then static setting it on your router. but thats bad behaviour 

In my experience this doesn't work - I've had a couple of occasions
where the Optus DHCP server and my dhclient failed to communicate, my
lease expired and I lost connectivity.

That said, dyndns serves my purposes for almost everything.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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