Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer?

[James Pruitt <james () pruitt prserv net>]

Dialing in again may or may not get you a different IP
address.  Depending on the DHCP setup being used your pc may
just request (and likely get) the same address again.

Is there a disconnect you can send to Gnutella to tell the
other machine to "get lost"?

Jim Starke wrote:
> Sara Brigid Gaffney wrote:
> > I had my packet sniffer running on this solitary Windows PC but I
> > wasn't on the net.  Suddenly I noticed I was getting hit multiple
> > times a second.  They were coming from a range of sources but
> > targeted one port, 6346.
>
> Possibly the previous person who had the IP Address that you were
> assigned when you connected to your ISP was running Gnutella. It wasn't
> a DoS but just the fallout of other computers thinking that you were
> sharing files because they didn't know the previous user disconnected.
> I'm presuming that you are assigned a dynamic ip address by your ISP.
>
> Normally disconnecting and dialing back into your ISP will fix the
> problem because it will assign you a new ip address.
>
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