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Originally Posted by DaleDe

Actually block an address has good use if they were static.

That's a big if.

But it can still be useful if you can identify the address. My ISP gives me a dynamic IP address through DHCP, but in practice, while it could change, it doesn't. I think you are more likely to see IP addresses for a node changing if the node is a dial-up connection. If the node is a dial-up connection, you are less likely to see the sorts of problems we are concerned with.

And there's another issue on blocking the address: who will do it? doing it on your own system is of limited value. It needs to be done by your ISP, or better, by the backbone they connect to.

Getting them to do that may take a bit of doing.
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Dennis