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On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:24:05AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA (der Mouse) writes:
>=20
> >Now, though, I have to wonder what to do when an address _does_ go away
> >"permanently" and thus connections to it _should_ break.  Or is the
> >theory that that's rare enough to not be worth doing anything about?
>=20
> It happens regularly when you are on a german DSL-connection where
> addresses will be reassigned (and thus change) every 24 hours.

And even when you have a provider that guarantees you a constant IP address
but uses the same DSL infrastructure for the last mile, the connection will
go away for a second once in 24 hours.

	-is

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