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Rapid changes in my Dynamic IP Address
Recently the dynamic public IP address assigned to me by T-Mobile Home Internet service started behaving differently. The IP address (reported by google when doing a google search for "what is my ip...
I'm having this same problem. It's especially aggravating to me because I manage a website. Beginning a few days ago, the Cpanel (where you do all the backend stuff for a website's server) for my shared hosting plan started kicking me out every couple of seconds because "your IP address has changed." I also tried using FTP to get to the server, and it also won't let me into my root directory. This is crazy!
My research shows that T-Mobile doesn't really use IPv4. It uses only IPv6 and something called 464XLAT. I won't pretend to understand the concept, but 464XLAT is billed as a way to connect to an IPv4 host over an IPv6 network. I might suppose that part of what it does is produce IPv4 addresses on the fly. Well, something has gone wrong! It shouldn't be giving us new IPv4 addresses every couple of seconds!
T-Mobile, please address this and fix it.
