Long-term identifiers (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

Mon Mar 15 11:56:19 UTC 2004

Sean Donelan wrote:

>
>If I send an abuse complaint to an organization's mailbox on a Friday
>night, will it be dealt with in the next 10 seconds?  Or sometime next
>week?  If the computer reboots every 60 seconds, and gets different IP
>addresses every time, a single infected computer can appear with lots of
>different IP addresses which results in overblocking.  Similar things
>  
>
Most DHCP servers are capable of assigning the same IP address to the 
same MAC address both with DHCPDISCOVER and DHCPREQUEST. It just needs 
the configuring party to want that. (with the caveat that somebody got 
to the address first, which is possible but unlikely) Since static ip 
addresses are considered a premium service, most providers opt towards 
approaches which make the IP address change more often.

Pete