Static IP

[alchamy]

Anyone got an idea on pricing?

According to this , it R199 per month (that site is terrible abuse to mambo)

WTF, SMTP is blocked and uptime is not good enough for hosting....why would anyone want a static IP??? ESP at that price.

 

[Crash]

The next questions is, will that static IP be accessible internationally?

 

[alchamy]

The next questions is, will that static IP be accessible internationally?

LOL, yeah is my static IP only inside the iBurst network????

 

[nocilah]

what do you need a static ip for....

do a search on this forum cuz if i am not mistaken someone has got that from iburst and i think it was anadditional R250.00 a month... but it didnt work properly... or they changed it every night (which sounds like somehting wbs would do)

but i could be terribly wrong.

 

[alchamy]

I actually remember that, It might have been regardtv or rush.

 

[ic]

Perhaps it was Jongi's:

[post=262034]IP address in use?[/post]

?

Which AFAIK turned out to be the ksedpleh attempting to instruct Jongi in the ways of the rfScan...

 

[alchamy]

HAHA, I remember following that thread and thinking "what the heck is going on here"

 

[Crash]

Alchamy, I have heard of cases where, you get a static IP and the IP only has scope in South Africa. So all local traffic will see it as static. But outside South Africa, it doesn't work. Wierd, but I have heard of it.

 

[sihen]

Ye the statics would be routable internationally. I had a static for a while 196.30.31.1 - u can try it if you want.

 

[alchamy]

Alchamy, I have heard of cases where, you get a static IP and the IP only has scope in South Africa. So all local traffic will see it as static. But outside South Africa, it doesn't work. Wierd, but I have heard of it.

Could be using NAT on the backbone.

 

[sihen]

Alchamy, its called a null routed IP, basically used to prevent Denial of Services Attacks. most of the South African IRC servers do it to prevent any international attacks, as even a home DSL attack from the USA would do damage on a SA server.
Try it out, try connect to the efnet ZA server for an international address

 

[Crash]

Hmmm... Interesting.

Come to think of it Alchamy, it probably was NAT'ted somewhere along the lines.

 

[alchamy]

Alchamy, its called a null routed IP, basically used to prevent Denial of Services Attacks. most of the South African IRC servers do it to prevent any international attacks, as even a home DSL attack from the USA would do damage on a SA server.
Try it out, try connect to the efnet ZA server for an international address

Hmm, interesting. It definately makes sense.

Is that why you cannot do a tracert to some SA servers from the states?

 

[regardtv]

No idea on pricing but the static IP works a charm....

For me its a life saver since my connection frequently drops in the middle of ssh sessions... at least now I can continue a session after re-connect ;-) .

... yes,yes, I know "screen" works too ;-)

 

[Clipse]

anyone buying 9gig iburst account, read that page, it says 124 kilobits/sec lol, obviously a typo but imagine them holding that against low performance ;p

 

[alchamy]

anyone buying 9gig iburst account, read that page, it says 124 kilobits/sec lol, obviously a typo but imagine them holding that against low performance ;p

LOL, yeah I noticed that.