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

  • From: Dave Crocker
  • Date: Wed Mar 17 03:24:40 2004 
Sean,

SD> ...  A long-term end-to-end
SD> identifier would let me immediately drop the specific infected computer's
SD> traffic regardless of its rotating IP addresses, even if your abuse


What is to prevent rapid changes to the identifier, even more easily
than rapidly changing IP addresses?

In other words, why "trust" the identifier?  Or at least, how would
this identifier really be long term?

d/
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 Dave Crocker <dcrocker-at-brandenburg-dot-com>
 Brandenburg InternetWorking <www.brandenburg.com>
 Sunnyvale, CA  USA <tel:+1.408.246.8253>