The IP address of my FreeBSD box was changed after over a year with the same IP. (Sniff, sniff such a good IP it was, too.) As I was out all night last night doing some plumbing-type work at my brother-in-law’s I didn’t get a chance to fix things until a while ago.

When Rogers caused my IP address to change via DHCP my box reported a conflict with another host on the cable network. My box is just too nice. If it senses another one using the same IP it doesn’t send out packets until the arp cache is cleared. You betcha I’ve now added a cron job to do this automatically now. I phoned Rogers this morning about the problem. I actually confirmed that my box was supposed to have that IP address. Tonight the offending computer doesn’t seem to be around with my IP address anymore. Anyway I also registed with DynDNS to have a place I can stick my IP until my son, the registrar, puts hubbo.com back on the 'net again.

By the way, I have to commend Rogers this time. Both the calls this morning and this afternoon were answered within five minutes by technical support. I managed to get a credit for the two days hubbo.com was off line, too. Technical support couldn’t do anything except ping my cable modem and confirm it was in working order. And since that other box was no longer causing me problems then I didn’t have any problem either. Still aggravating to have my box unresponsive for awhile, though.