Am 06.01.22 schrieb Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 in IPV6:

Hallo Michiel,

AN>> I think, today it is a way to sell their 'business' rates which
AN>> include static IPv4 and IPv6 prefix...

MvdV> Here that "Business Pro" package is not available without a commercial
MvdV> registration.

As far as I've read, at least as a customer of Deutsche Telekom it is  
also possible to get the business packages.
I don't know how other ISPs handle it, though.

AN>> My first boss once told me: If something is to be done more than one
AN>> time, it's worth writing a script to automate it :)

MvdV> I see the point but I disagree with that boss of yours. If it happens
MvdV> twice it is still not worth to invest time and energy in automating it.
MvdV> Most of the time at least. Problem is of course that one generally does
MvdV> not know in advance how often it is going to happen.

Yep, that's the problem :) So I try to handle it in the way that if  
automating a problem is not excessively hard, I try to write a script  
if I probably have to solve a problem several times.

AN>> But besides, you have to be noticed somehow that the IP/prefix has
AN>> been changed - or how do you know when to manually update your DNS?

MvdV> If my IPv6 pefix changes I notice soon enough. There is always someone
MvdV> in the Fidonet IPv6 club that warns me within a day. ;-)

Okay, so it can happen that your IPv6 connection isn't reachable for  
some time (via DNS). So it's good that IPv4 is still working :)

Regards,
Anna

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