Are static IPs better than dynamic ones? Myth, fiction or fact?

[mole]

I just bought a http://www.interland.com BlueHalo Windows shared hosting for one of my domains to test their services out.

But this is apparently an IP-less hosting. They don't assign you a permanent IP address.

Is this good or bad for search engines? Or it doesn't make a difference?

[theparrot]

the probably do assign you a permanent address, it is just shared.

It used to matter because not all browsers sent the Host: header when name based hosting was started. At this point it should not matter if all you are doing is serving web pages.

[Sharpy]

That will give you your current IP http://checkip.dyndns.org/

[theparrot]

Maybe it will, assuming you or your ISP does not go through proxies etc.