North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 11:43:36AM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[email protected]> 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)
|