<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 2, 2018, at 6:39 PM, doug moen <<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org" class="">doug@moens.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Teksavvy charges $4/mo for static IP, it's available for DSL but not for cable. Bell does not offer static IP addresses, neither does Rogers.</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">At least for Rogers (and IPv4) my IP tends to stay the same for months at a time; I have a friend who I do some DNS work for and for the longest time he’d just email me twice or thrice a year to update the IP for his name, it was that infrequent.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I used to use DNSSEC and a little script which automatically updated my <a href="http://homename.mixdown.ca" class="">homename.mixdown.ca</a> address whenever it changed, but I’ve gotten lazy and just use <a href="http://no-ip.com" class="">no-ip.com</a> now. The Rogers modem has support for it and it was just easiest.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you’re curious I can dig up the DNSSEC script I used, maybe you’d find it useful? You'll need a DNS server to talk to to resolve the dynamic IP for you, but if you’ve already got that it’s free and very low hassle.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-A.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>