{"id":122,"date":"2001-04-19T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2001-04-20T01:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=122"},"modified":"2019-11-21T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:24:49","slug":"i-wasnt-really-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/04\/19\/i-wasnt-really-down\/","title":{"rendered":"I wasn&#8217;t really down&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16996,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gci.net&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260225072558\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.gci.net\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 17:42:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 17:42:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16997,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gci.com\\\/promos\\\/hypernet\\\/hypernet.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041019053402\\\/http:\\\/\\\/gci.com:80\\\/promos\\\/hypernet\\\/hypernet.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 17:42:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 17:42:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16998,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dyndns.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20071014162237\\\/http:\\\/\\\/dyndns.org:80\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 17:42:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 17:42:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, for any of you who might be interested, here&#8217;s the deal. I run my own webserver here at home, and my &#8216;net connection is provided through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gci.net\/\" title=\"General Communications, Inc.\">GCI<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gci.com\/promos\/hypernet\/hypernet.htm\" title=\"GCI Hypernet\">cable modem service<\/a>. Technically, this is a dynamic <acronym title=\"Internet Protocol\">IP<\/acronym> service &#8212; my IP address (the four-part number that is the true address of a computer on the &#8216;net) isn&#8217;t permanently assigned to me, and can change every time I establish a new &#8216;net connection. However, as cable modem service has very little downtime, my &#8216;dynamic&#8217; IP is <em>almost<\/em> static &#8212; if I don&#8217;t have any downtime, then the IP doesn&#8217;t change.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s because of the dynamic nature of my IP address that I haven&#8217;t yet gone for a better web address &#8212; i.e., something along the lines of www.djwudi.com or some such &#8212; registering for one of those generally requires having a permanent, dedicated IP. Instead, I go through the services provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dyndns.org\/\" title=\"Dynamic Domain Name Service\">www.dyndns.org<\/a>. This free service allows me to have my djwudi.dyndns.org address, and all I have to do is put the current IP of my webserver into their database.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, however, my IP will change &#8212; which is what happened today. I&#8217;m not sure why my IP suddenly reset today, there was no actual downtime that I&#8217;m aware of, and I would have expected it to change when my cable modem was actually disconnected a week ago, but it didn&#8217;t. In any case, as soon as I saw that things weren&#8217;t working I put the new IP into the database, but it took a few hours for it to propagate through the system. However, between the time I started typing this and now, it&#8217;s made it through, so all should be good from here on out&#8230;at least, until the next time GCI decides to kick my IP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, however, my IP will change &#8212; which is what happened today. I&#8217;m not sure why my IP suddenly reset today, there was no actual downtime that I&#8217;m aware of, and I would have expected it to change when my cable modem was actually disconnected a week ago, but it didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}