Life is like a DHCP Client, your given an IP address for a period set forth by the DHCP Server. You can hold onto the IP as long as the server will allow you too, or you can release the IP address in an effort to obtain a new one.

While we are limited to what life throws at us (the IPs given the the DHCP Server), we are not necessarily at the whim of the DHCP Server, we too have choices to keep the IP given to us or choose to release and/or renew.

Recently, I made a tough decision to release my IP address that was currently assigned to me. It was not a choice that came easy. One can only take so many attacks from the outside before changing your IP address is the only obvious option. You spend so much processing power on the incoming attacks that you don’t have time to perform what you where made and designed for.

Clearly, Server Admins know how many resources incoming attacks take on CPU’s… and not surprising in life, we can find ourselves in the same situation… spending brain power on processing and fending off an attack than doing the work of what the server was designed for.

While I will have to wait awhile before getting a new IP address, until the offending attacker moves on to another host/victim, it doesn’t stop me from lower my brain load and getting back to business of what I was designed for.

I thank everyone for their support during this time and for my God who has just shown He is in control of the situation, no matter what attack is being thrown at me. While some might view God as a firewall that would protect you from the attacks, I see Him more as a System Admin, letting you do your own thing, but taking control and providing adjustments along the way.