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Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today
From: Mike Tancsa <mike () sentex net>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:24:48 -0400
At 11:14 PM 28/08/2003 +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
Mike Tancsa wrote: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 withoutI 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.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
Current thread:
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today, (continued)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Andrew Kerr (Aug 22)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Petri Helenius (Aug 22)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Owen DeLong (Aug 22)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Jay Hennigan (Aug 22)
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- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Owen DeLong (Aug 22)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Doug Barton (Aug 22)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Owen DeLong (Aug 28)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Dan Hollis (Aug 28)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Mike Tancsa (Aug 28)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Petri Helenius (Aug 28)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Mike Tancsa (Aug 28)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Patrick Muldoon (Aug 28)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Damian Gerow (Aug 28)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Petri Helenius (Aug 28)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Mike Tancsa (Aug 28)
- Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today steve uurtamo (Aug 22)