[92285] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Wed Sep 13 11:54:02 2006
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:53:04 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
Cc: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>, fred@cisco.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20060913114336.d6ea2dd3.darcy@druid.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:43:36AM -0400,
D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> wrote
a message of 20 lines which said:
> No one knows me by my IP address. They know me by my email
> address(es).
It does not seem true. IP addresses are visible outside in:
* DNS servers when you get a zone delegation (the most important
reason why changing IP addresses is a pain),
* some peer-to-peer networks like Freenet, which do not use the DNS.
(There are also a lof of internal uses of IP addresses for instance in
firewalls and SSH caches.)
So, you actually have:
1) Phone numbers (very visible outside)
2) IP addresses (visible outside)
3) MAC addresses (completely invisible outside except for a few
minutes in the ARP caches)
