[167463] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Moats)
Thu Dec 12 06:37:13 2013
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 06:34:26 -0500
From: Sam Moats <sam@circlenet.us>
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I'm not sure about the current state of the industry it's been a while
since I was responsible for an access network. In the past we would keep
radius logs for about 4 months, these would include the username,IP
address and yes (to date myself) the caller id of the customer at the
time.
Sam Moats
On 2013-12-12 03:49, Ray Wong wrote:
> been a while, but seems like lately it's more a question of how long.
> ISPs
> can be in position where they need to, but as things have
> consolidated,
> seems like they'd really like to forget it as soon as they can. If
> you've
> got a specific case in mind, likely best to find a direct contact and
> get a
> response about policy, even if it has to be off-record. The big ones
> (like
> one I likely shouldn't mention by name unless they do as I don't work
> for
> them) definitely do, at least long enough to handle DMCA requests and
> other
> legal obligations.
>
> -R>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson
> <swmike@swm.pp.se>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Carlos Kamtha wrote:
>>
>> just a general curiousity question. it's been a long time since ive
>>> worked at an ISP.
>>>
>>> back then it was non-expiring DHCP leases and in some cases static
>>> IP for
>>> all.. (yes it was long ago..)
>>>
>>> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated..
>>>
>>
>> Yes, it's very common to keep track of what user account/line had
>> what IP
>> at what time.
>>
>> --
>> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
>>
>>
