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Re: Fun new policy at AOL

  • From: Mike Tancsa
  • Date: Thu Aug 28 17:14:12 2003 
At 03:48 PM 28/08/2003 -0500, Susan Zeigler wrote:

> >  Unless AOL is downloading the
> >entire routing pools from all ISPs on a daily basis, how do they know
> >which IPs are dynamic and which are static;)
>
> What would BGP tables tell you about internal routing and DNS ?
>


It's 216.161.123.79
If they are creating lists by regex / name analysis

79.123.161.216.in-addr.arpa name = ddslppp79.desm.uswest.net

looks awfully 'dynamic'/pool like... If AOL wants to do something so shotgun like, thats their prerogative. But apart from examining the name, there is no way to tell that that IP address is being assigned to the same customer.

---Mike