My IP changed

I woke up this morning and began my daily ritual: cup of orange juice, bowl of cereal, and sat down to check my e-mail. As Outlook loaded on my laptop, I began to notice the “error” icon in the bottom right corner of the window. Thinking I had incorrectly entered my password, I began to read that Outlook was not able to connect to the several domains I have hosted on my mail server.

After checking a few settings and verifying the mail server was indeed up, I reset the router and cable modem but to no avail. Finally, it dawned on me: “Could it be true? After having the same IP address for nearly 5-years, has Comcast finally chnged my IP?” The answer, unfortunately, was “Yes”.

I quickly logged on to dyndns.com (my domain registrar and DNS provider) to update the IP addresses for a half dozen domains that are hosted on my server. After only a few minutes, the changes had propagated and I was back in business again.

Losing my trusty IP has been like losing an old friend – I could always rely on it being there (even after modem reboots.) Let’s just hope this IP change does not become a recurring event or I will have to switch providers.