----- Original Message ----- From: "Valcor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] Ban/Kill with fingerprint
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Chojin wrote: > > > > What exactly do you mean by fingerprint? You can set klines and > > > bans on masks such as *@*.aol.com already. > > > > > > > I mean fingerprint is a sort a computer id and if I gline a users with > > *@*.aol.com with his fingeprint, even if user changes his IP (with isp > > reconnection) he is still glined because his fingerprint is glined. Other > > users from aol can join. > > You mean maybe like their processor serial/mac address/OS id? > Each OS has his own fingerprint. By example, when sending a SYN|ACK|FIN|RST on a closed port, and user answers with RST, It's a Windows OS (because it doesn't follow the RFC). I also heard MSS (Maximum Segment Size) is different for each user then it could be a sort of user fingerprint. -- Chojin
