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<quote who="Sean Donelan"> > On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, David A. Ulevitch wrote: >> > How many times did you disable the same user's network access because >> > they didn't actually fix their computer but told you it was fixed? >> >> Just once, if they weren't patched they were automatically turned down >> again. (automated, not human processing) > > Forever? So the student can never use the university network again > for as long as he or she remains at the school? Even if he or she > promises the computer is really fixed this time? Every dorm has a "residential computer consultant" who can throw the student's MAC_ADDR into a form and have it removed from the blocks. Doing this let's them get a routable IP address again. If they are still spewing traffic or other ungoodness they are blocked within a couple minutes. The students *want* to get their machines fixed when the realize thay lying about fixing it doesn't work. -davidu > > ---------------------------------------------------- David A. Ulevitch Washington University in St. Louis http://david.ulevitch.com -- http://everydns.net ----------------------------------------------------
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