[61424] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Aug 28 16:20:44 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:14:10 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030828160941.06798860@209.112.4.2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> I dont think this would work too well. The users who are infected
> often think something is wrong because their connection and computer
> are not working quite right. So they disconnect / reconnect / reboot
> so they burn through quite a few dynamic IP addresses along the way.
>
This is an artifact of ISPīs wanting to have static IPīs as an add-on
premium service
so they provide short lease times and change IP as often as itīs
feasible without
interrupting service unneccessarily.
Pete
