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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Well, if it's a dial-up account. For a broadband account, the IP may be dynamic, but likely won't change once allocated. My cable modem account IP hasn't changed since I got it. My previous DSL account didn't either.
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I've had it go months without changing, and I've had it change 3 times in as many weeks; that was all with the same ISP, and it was cable. Not super long ago either. Of course it can go either way, and I have no idea how that whole thing works in the UK, other than very slowly (from what I hear).
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Steve (Spinrite) Gibson went on a while back about a DDOS attack on his server, and the fun he had getting his host to block the offending traffic.
He wound up tracking the attack back to a source, and popped up in an IRC channel where the kid who had launched it hung out. Turned out it was a case of mistaken identity, and the script kiddie had launched the attack from his botnet under the impression Gibson had said something he didn't actually say.  |
That's impressive; he actually got to the source. Most of the vengeful types just run into the spambot machines. Then again you did say he was a kiddie.
The fact is, the cops won't get the guy who cut you off in traffic the other day, and the ISPs likewise can't police the world. I personally wouldn't expect them to.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I suspect Geoff is seeing access attempts on his IP address that have nothing to do with wifi.
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I figured as much, was just pointing it out.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
You can get that sort of nonsense, and it doesn't matter how you're connected: merely that you are visible. I got grim amusement a few years ago when I connected my laptop in a hotel room, and watched something try to contact the VNC server instance I had running. That's what I have a firewall for, so I blocked the attempt, thumbed my nose and shook my head.
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Some years ago when I still ran Windows full-time, I also ran Sygate (before MS bought it and ran it into the ground). I have to admit seeing the log auto-update with the endless stream of seemingly random pings and aborted connection attempts was sobering. It was one of my many "I gotta do something about this" moments which contributed to my switching to Linux.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
At home, there's a wireless router with the firewall enabled, and desktop and laptop both have software firewalls. Two, in fact: I left Windows firewall up since it hasn't conflicted with anything, and have Sygate Personal Firewall in addition. The file system is pretty well locked down, so even if someone gets past the WPA2 in the router, they aren't likely to get anywhere else.
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I was literally starting the install of IPFire on a spare box when I saw a response on this thread. Mine will go gateway > router > wireless router (gotta love multiple subnets) when it's done. Wireless is WPA2-AES with a 256-bit key; if anyone has a notion of brute-forcing it they'd better bring some coffee because it'll be awhile.