I am wondering if given a wan ip address at random if their is away to determine if it is a static or dynamically assigned ip address.
I.E if the wan ip address is assigned dynamically thru a dhcp server?
I know if it was a local address I could track down the dhcp server for that particular domain and then just look on the dhcp server to see if the ip fell into the range of dhcp pool of address assigned by the dhcp server.
If it did then it was a dynamic ip if not then it must be static.
But with a random wan address I don't know if their is way to do it.
Curious though.
For example
suppose you had been given a wan ip address that you tracked down to be from an isp provider such as comcast, crocker, charter ,...etc is their away to find out if this ip address has a fixed destinition or if it was given to a wan computer dynamically for a certain lease time and their for may not be useable to get back to that exact computer again in the future.
I.E if the wan ip address is assigned dynamically thru a dhcp server?
I know if it was a local address I could track down the dhcp server for that particular domain and then just look on the dhcp server to see if the ip fell into the range of dhcp pool of address assigned by the dhcp server.
If it did then it was a dynamic ip if not then it must be static.
But with a random wan address I don't know if their is way to do it.
Curious though.
For example
suppose you had been given a wan ip address that you tracked down to be from an isp provider such as comcast, crocker, charter ,...etc is their away to find out if this ip address has a fixed destinition or if it was given to a wan computer dynamically for a certain lease time and their for may not be useable to get back to that exact computer again in the future.
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