Thus spake Petri Helenius (pete@he.iki.fi) [28/08/03 16:23]:
I 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.
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 without interrupting service unneccessarily.
Or potentially an artifact of wanting more IP space from ARIN, as opposed to assigning a static IP to every user we have, even the ones that are only connected for about an hour a month. But hey, that's just a minor detail.