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Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sat Aug 21 14:57:30 2010

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:57:02 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=vnPezKoP5Erjaq19zDHyQfv8jiAHpk87dtiB4@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 8/18/10 4:20 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
>>> In IPv4-land I have the possibility to
>>> reconnect and get a new unrelated ip-address every time.
>>>
>>
>> They're issued by the same ISP, to they're related.
> 
> Ups. Unrelated in the sense of random ip from their pool, of course.

except of course that in practice if your lease hasn't expired and the
ip reassigned, or even if you manually release it you're very likely to
receive the same one.

> hannes
> 



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