G'day, I'm about to switch ADSL providers, and that caused me to stop and think about dynamic/static IP addresses and ADSL. Mainly because I'll have an always on connection[0], yet I'll still have a dynamic address, or I need to pay $10/month for a static IPv4. It has been suggested to me that one of the reasons that DSL connections in NZ tend to have dynamic addresses is due to an APNIC policy. Can anyone here point me towards it? The best I've found is a slide deck from their Internet Resource Management course[1] which says that dynamic addressing is encouraged, but I haven't found any policy documents to back that up. It fact it seems that APNIC policy is opposite to that. The assumption in the APNIC IPv4 Guidelines[2] is that DSL connections are permanent 'net connections and therefore are normally assigned static IPs. And yes, I am using dynamic DNS at the moment. It looks like I will continue to do so, but it'd be nicer to have a static IPv4 address. It seems crazy to have to pay for the benefit of an allocated IPv4 address when I'll always be using one anyhow. Cheers! [0] My phone will be included as VoIP, thanks to Xnet therefore my ADSL connection needs to up all the time for my phone to work. [1] http://www.apnic.net/training/download/irm-1/irm1-9-ispevaluation-22122004.p... slide 2 [2] http://www.apnic.net/policy/ipv4-guidelines.html section 6.2 -- Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand At home: andrew(a)etc.gen.nz | This space intentionally | left blank.