[61428] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Muldoon)
Thu Aug 28 16:37:19 2003
From: Patrick Muldoon <doon@inoc.net>
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:35:19 -0400
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030828162000.05630de0@209.112.4.2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thursday 28 August 2003 04:24 pm, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 11:14 PM 28/08/2003 +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
> >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 bu=
rn
> >>through quite a few dynamic IP addresses along the way.
> >
> >This is an artifact of ISP=B4s wanting to have static IP=B4s as an add-on
> >premium service
> >so they provide short lease times and change IP as often as it=B4s feasi=
ble
> >without
> >interrupting service unneccessarily.
>
> Huh ? This is an artifact of the way PM3s and MAX 6096s work with respect
> to how IP addresses are assigned out of pools.... i.e. this is the default
> behaviour. The same goes for our DSL pool.
>
> ---Mike
It isn't about wanting to charge more for a static ip per sea, it is more=20
about efficient use of address space. If I have 10K dialup customers, if I=
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go to arin and ask for a /18 so each one of my dialup customers can have a=
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Patrick Muldoon
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