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See ye here, kitchin@intersurf.com crafted the following words:

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>I started this thread and now I think my ISP [not the one in the header or
>sig] has some confusion over the term "static IP."  In addition to referring
>to dialups that always assign the same IP to the same customer (so they can
>run servers), I think I recall reading that Internic used to assign an IP
>along with a domain name.  So if you changed providers you kept your IP??

You recall wrong.  

InterNIC doesn't assign an IP to a domain name.  When you register your domain
name, *you* assign your domain name record to a name server.  The people running
the name server *then* deal with IP assignment for that domain name.

When you move your domain name to another location, you either change your name
server portion of your InterNIC record, or you have the people who run the name
servers in your InterNIC record change your domain's IP assignment to direct DNS
to your new location.

IPs are/were never portable in single units!  Routing doesn't work this way.

>Anyway, my ISP referred to a non-shared IP (ie, what 99% of all domains get)
>as a "static IP."  I know, the shared one is static too.  But this may be the
>source of the confusion: the old type of "static IP's" really are against
>current policies.  (Please excuse me if I've made a muck of the history of
>IP's here.  I did read that didn't I??)

Static IP means "non-changing" in this usage.  You always use the same IP,
however you may share the IP with other domains.  Dedicated IP is a static IP
that is only used by your domain.  Dynamic IP (in the way my company uses it for
our hosting accounts) means that your domain name will use different IPs (based
on load) at different times.  In the way we host domains it also means that it
may be shared by many domains, it is neither unchanging nor dedicated to your
domain.  Thus a shared IP is not necessarily a Static IP.

Hope this helps.

jc

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