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Static IP
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Crash
Senior Member
The next questions is, will that static IP be accessible internationally?
nocilah
Banned
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.
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.
Perhaps it was Jongi's:
[post=262034]IP address in use?[/post]
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Which AFAIK turned out to be the ksedpleh attempting to instruct Jongi in the ways of the rfScan...
[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...
Crash
Senior Member
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
Well-Known Member
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.
sihen
Well-Known Member
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
Try it out, try connect to the efnet ZA server for an international address
Crash
Senior Member
Hmmm... Interesting.
Come to think of it Alchamy, it probably was NAT'ted somewhere along the lines.
Come to think of it Alchamy, it probably was NAT'ted somewhere along the lines.
sihen said: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
Expert Member
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 ;-)
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 ;-)