IP Address . . . What Happened? 1

[TheAceMan1]

Howdy All . . . . .

On my sons machine:
[ol][li]Win98se stand alone.[/li]
[li]FireWall by Computer Associates (its reall Zone Alarm underneath).[/li]
[li]Public IP = [blue]69.203.119.144[/blue] (the Ethernet of course)[/li][/ol]
After a power brownout that lasted about 2min, the following occured:
[ol][li]On initial boot, firewall prompted detection of a new network. I went ahead and let the fire wall do its job.[/li]
[/li]Checking properties of the firewall I found I now had two network connections, instead of one (different addresses of course).[/li]
[li]OK . . . . I reboot![/li]
[li]After 2nd boot and checking firewall, I have only one network (like it should be), but IP is different [blue][blue]69.203.112.0[/blue][/blue][/li][/ol]
Everything works fine,its just for all I've tried I can't get the origional public IP back. It was of no concern until I checked over a dozen sites that report what you public IP is, and they all report the origional. Even [blue]ipConfig[/blue] reports correctly.

[purple]Anyone have any idea what happened or how to get the origional back?[/purple]

See Ya! . . . . . .

 

[SimonDavies]

I wouldn't worry, it looks like the ip address is DHCP allocated from your ISP, this is normal so I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Treyze]

I agree with SimonDavies, you are not going to get your DHCP address back from your ISP. Someone is probably already using your old address. If your firewall reboots due to a power failure, your firewall releases it's address and picks up a new address 99% of the time.

If you want to retain a static IP, I would suggest that you inquire with you ISP to see if they have a package available.

my $.02

 

[TheAceMan1]

SimonDavies . . . Treyze . . .

Thanks for the reply.

In retrospect, why then do sites that report my public IP ( have 7 of em) & ipconfig, all report the old IP?

Example Public IP reporting site IP Address

[purple]An answer to this would be great . . .[/purple]

See Ya! . . . . . .

 

[GlenJohnson]

Probably have it in cache. It'll take a while for all to right itself.

Glen A. Johnson
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[TheAceMan1]

How ya GlenJohnson . . . . .

Finally something that makes sense.

[blue]ThankYou![/blue] ;-)

See Ya! . . . . . .