[68623] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Long-term identifiers (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Mon Mar 15 06:57:12 2004
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:56:19 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0403150501250.7066@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>If I send an abuse complaint to an organization's mailbox on a Friday
>night, will it be dealt with in the next 10 seconds? Or sometime next
>week? If the computer reboots every 60 seconds, and gets different IP
>addresses every time, a single infected computer can appear with lots of
>different IP addresses which results in overblocking. Similar things
>
>
Most DHCP servers are capable of assigning the same IP address to the
same MAC address both with DHCPDISCOVER and DHCPREQUEST. It just needs
the configuring party to want that. (with the caveat that somebody got
to the address first, which is possible but unlikely) Since static ip
addresses are considered a premium service, most providers opt towards
approaches which make the IP address change more often.
Pete
