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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:32:31 -0400 From: Damian Gerow <damian@sentex.net> To: nanog@merit.edu Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu In-Reply-To: <3F4E6292.8090601@he.iki.fi> Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu Thus spake Petri Helenius (pete@he.iki.fi) [28/08/03 16:23]: > >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 ISP?s wanting to have static IP?s as an add-on > premium service > so they provide short lease times and change IP as often as it?s > feasible without > interrupting service unneccessarily. Or potentially an artifact of wanting more IP space from ARIN, as opposed to assigning a static IP to every user we have, even the ones that are only connected for about an hour a month. But hey, that's just a minor detail.
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