Ok, so now I know that howtogeek is unreliable. That article was written by a moron.
they did not even seem to know that there is a such thing as a local and global/WAN ip address, there is never any mention of that in the article.
they say this like it’s consistently true, no qualifiers. they gloss over the topic like it’s simple and consistently works. it doesn’t even consistently work for your local ip, your local ip is unimportant to anyone who isn’t already physically on or hacked into your home network… not relevant to the discussion.
I just tried this though, just as a sanity check. I checked my WAN ip, unplugged my router and plugged back in, got the same ip again, unplugged the router for 15 seconds, still got the same ip.
The truth is, isps probably like to keep ips around for a while because precisely of people needing to have a semi-consistent identity to servers. If you could just evade any ip ban by rebooting your router, I feel like the internet would be an even wilder place, in a lot of bad ways.
Old cable guy here. Back in the day people had their modems jacked directly into their PC, so directly on the internet.
LOL, anyone remember needing something like Zone Alarm as a firewall?
TRIGGERED
Maybe it made sense to swap their IPs on reboot for their own, dumb protection? Maybe more likely that now we all have 24/7 modem/router/firewalls it costs less overhead to leave the dynamic IP alone? Maybe they just want us to pay extra for a “static” IP, even though it’s basically that way for many or most of us?
Your last point is probably more on the money. I WFH and have to have my IP in a couple of whitelists. Since it never changes, no hassle.
Ok, so now I know that howtogeek is unreliable. That article was written by a moron.
they did not even seem to know that there is a such thing as a local and global/WAN ip address, there is never any mention of that in the article.
they say this like it’s consistently true, no qualifiers. they gloss over the topic like it’s simple and consistently works. it doesn’t even consistently work for your local ip, your local ip is unimportant to anyone who isn’t already physically on or hacked into your home network… not relevant to the discussion.
I just tried this though, just as a sanity check. I checked my WAN ip, unplugged my router and plugged back in, got the same ip again, unplugged the router for 15 seconds, still got the same ip.
The truth is, isps probably like to keep ips around for a while because precisely of people needing to have a semi-consistent identity to servers. If you could just evade any ip ban by rebooting your router, I feel like the internet would be an even wilder place, in a lot of bad ways.
Old cable guy here. Back in the day people had their modems jacked directly into their PC, so directly on the internet.
LOL, anyone remember needing something like Zone Alarm as a firewall?
TRIGGERED
Maybe it made sense to swap their IPs on reboot for their own, dumb protection? Maybe more likely that now we all have 24/7 modem/router/firewalls it costs less overhead to leave the dynamic IP alone? Maybe they just want us to pay extra for a “static” IP, even though it’s basically that way for many or most of us?
Your last point is probably more on the money. I WFH and have to have my IP in a couple of whitelists. Since it never changes, no hassle.