Not necessarily so. Like Jonathan mentioned, many huge ISPs (like AOL, for example, IIRC) route requests through load balanced transparent proxies. This can cause the same person to appear to browse from a number of different IPs - changing perhaps even more often than Jonathan reported.
Issac Radoslaw Zielinski wrote: > Jonathan Vanasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-08-2006 21:24]: >> On Aug 3, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Radoslaw Zielinski wrote: >>> Valid: exists, hasn't expired, client's IP matches (ID might have been >>> stolen somehow), etc. >> I find IP matching to be utterly useless. IPs for dialup/broadband >> users change like crazy as their ISPs funnel stuff into/out of proxies. > >> my own ip can change every 3 minutes at times. its annoying. > > Uh, that's extreme. But I'd call it a broken network, not a problem > with the idea of matching IP. With something like this, any service > using long-lasting connections will have problems. >
