Move along, son
I just found out that the evil overlords at Comcast changed the IP address of my home connection recently. They don't do this often, but when they do, it's without warning. If you're a Comcast customer in Portland, and something you do on the internet isn't working quite right, you might want to check out your IP address. That's easy enough to do -- you can just go here.
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Okay, this is kind of new to me, but when I click on that link, is the number I'm seeing (71......77) mine or yours? It's your link, but I also have Comcast.
Posted by Gil Johnson | March 8, 2007 10:39 PM
The number which that site serves up is your IP address -- the address of the server from which you are viewing the internet.
There's a way you can get the address of the server on which this blog resides, too.
You cannot, to my knowledge, easily get the IP address of my home internet connection.
Posted by Jack Bog | March 8, 2007 10:45 PM
Would that be why links to the BBC site aren't working correctly? Also, if you go to Robtex.com you can see if your IP address is blocked/blacklisted. Mine is. What do I have to do to undo that?
Posted by Audrey | March 9, 2007 10:08 AM
Thanks for this. I wonder if Comcast is doing this elsewhere (we're not in Portland, but some of my 'net stuff has stopped working properly).
Posted by Marilyn | March 10, 2007 2:07 AM
It may not matter to most people. But one operation I conduct requires that I be admitted through a firewall that knows me by IP address. When Comcast switched me, the firewall wouldn't let me in. A phone call to the web host fixed that.
Posted by Jack Bog | March 10, 2007 3:38 AM