nanog mailing list archives

Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy


From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:57:02 -0700

On 8/18/10 4:20 PM, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
In IPv4-land I have the possibility to
reconnect and get a new unrelated ip-address every time.


They're issued by the same ISP, to they're related.

Ups. Unrelated in the sense of random ip from their pool, of course.

except of course that in practice if your lease hasn't expired and the
ip reassigned, or even if you manually release it you're very likely to
receive the same one.

hannes




Current thread: