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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 08:46:30 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>
To:        Moses Backman <penguinjedi@home.com>
Cc:        Dennis Jun <dennisjun@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@gtabug.org
Subject:   Re: DNS caching, DHCP, /etc/resolv.conf
Message-ID:  <3A62FF36.7DEC0EB0@mail.iowna.com>
References:  <001201c07e83$80c5dc00$0300a8c0@wilma> <20010115082738.E1734@cg22413-a.adubn1.nj.home.com>

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Moses Backman wrote:
> 
> i'm not sure which cable system you have, but @Home makes lousey use of
> DHCP.  i have had the service for over 2 years and my ip has never changed.
>  you can cheat by setting up statically.......................

There's no reason why DHCP should be changing the IP all the time. Even
across reboots, a client request that it get its old IP back on startup.
Read the standard. DHCP is supposed to keep IPs as consistent as
possible, it only fluctuates when there are more clients than IPs.

-Bill


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