Re: [Sheflug] Dynamic or Static

[Neil R Porter <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 20:06, Darrell Blake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a question I'm hoping someone can shed a little light on. I'm getting 
> broadband next week and have the choice of a static or dynamic IP. Now I'm 
> tossing up on which to have. One, it would be nice to have a single address 
> (although I could use dyndns.org with a dynamic IP like I do now) surely 
> there's less security in it? What would people recommend?
> 

I used to think that having a static IP would make my life a lot easier
- and it would have initially.  But, while that was true at the time,
after I discovered the like of dyndns and the finer points of vhosting
etc. I began to realise that having a dynamic IP was a good thing.  As
you hint at security, I guess with dynamic IPs that the little kids with
scanners only get a couple of goes unless you leave your machine on all
the time.  

However, for me the best bit is you can't have your particular IP banned
forever from a service (justly or not).  Once I had my IP banned from an
anon ftp server just because they noticed I was using Linux and assumed
I was therefore a hacker (they meant cracker I think).

Just a couple of thoughts.

Neil

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