North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today
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 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. > > 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 about efficient use of address space. If I have 10K dialup customers, if I go to arin and ask for a /18 so each one of my dialup customers can have a static ip, what do you think the response is going to be? -- Patrick Muldoon Network/Software Engineer INOC (http://www.inoc.net) PGPKEY (http://www.inoc.net/~doon) Key fingerprint = 8F70 6306 F0A7 B8DA BA95 76C4 606A 7DC1 370D 752C One picture is worth 128K words.
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