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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
No, it goes back into the pool once the current lease has ended. You may lose your IP address due to moving line cards - you'll be forwarded to the server you request the IP from via a slightly different route so the IP request isn't the same - the server will remember which MAC address had that IP until the week long lease is done then it'll be released back to the available pool.
The DHCP server has no way of knowing that you won't be asking for the same IP address back and allocates them for fixed periods.
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IP addresses are neither paid for nor owned. VM are allocated use of some of them but they are considered a public resource.
VM are required to make as efficient use as possible of their available allocation, whether they do or not is, in common with most operators, extremely debatable  |
Thanks again "Ignitionnet" what is the lease period on Virgin? because I did have the same IP for like over a year.