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I am in need of some help changing my local IP address due to some security issues here locally. I am on a LAN here at school. Anybody know how to help??? I have tried the ipconfig/renew that wont do anything...
Swimm30070
You probably can't. IP addresses are usually either assigned by your network administrator or dynamically by a DHCP server. Arbitrarily changing your IP address will, at best, cause conflicts when another computer on the network tries to (legitimately) use the same address. At worst, you will break your or someone else's connectivity to the network and piss off the administrator.
What security issues are you having, and why do you think changing your IP address will solve them? As with most things, there are probably more ways to solve your problem than the one you are attempting.
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It is a website which uses your IP address to assign you to a mailing list and the mailing list i am on you cant unsubscribe from and i would just make a new email but it is my school email...I need to mask it or something...thats what i was told by a buddy of the same problem...but he was on just a cable modem. So i may never get off this thing...
Swimm30070
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If your at a school.
Call the network admin and tell them that your being attacked on your IP.. Then ask him to assign your a different IP.
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Swimm30070, what you say makes no sense. Email addresses aren't tied to IP addresses...at least not in the way you seem to think they are. Even if you managed to change your IP address, you would keep receiving mail from the mailing list because the mail is sent to an email server which is totally independent from the IP address of your personal computer.
Tell us more about this mailing list you're on. I find it hard to believe there isn't some way to unsubscribe from it.
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Jimminy..
your key word is "competent"
I have met many Admins that people thought were gods of the wire room. When I spoke with them it turned out they knew very little. Any request that sounded feasable was done.
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How exactly do you change your IP Address? I am wanting to change it because I was banned at a forum and I can't get in unless I change my IP Address. Help?
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i have similar problm here, I have been banned from my Univiersity locally configured DC++ by students, i need to get in back. but not possible until i change ip. Is there any other way to get in DC++ back?
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Exact same problem here. I actually was blatantly breaking the university hub rules, but I didn't really know about the rule at the time. I just left up dc++ to download while I went to class, and by the time I got back I'd been warned a dozen times and banned.
So, the IP is issued by your network, is there a way of blanking your computer's identity and convincing the network you're a new computer, so they'll automatically assign you a new one?
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