On 05/10/09 22:53 -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:55:35 -0400, Dan White <dwh...@olp.net> wrote:
All of the items in the above list are true of DHCP. ...
In an IPv4 world (which is where DHCP lives), it's much MUCH harder to
track assignments -- I don't share my DHCP logs with anyone, nor does
anyone send theirs to me. From the perspective of remote systems (ie.
not on the same network), there is about a 100% chance NAT is involved
making it near impossible to individually identify a specific machine,
even if it gets the same address every Tuesday when you're at Starbucks
for coffee. IPv6 does away with NAT (or it's supposed to); in doing so,
the veil is removed and everything that had been hidden from site is now
openly displayed. If the "host" part of your address never changes, then
you are instantly identifiable everywhere you go, with zero effort,
forever.
Use random addresses, and change as often as you like. Why depend on
someone else's DHCP server to provide you the addressing uniqueness you
desire?
--
Dan White
BTC Broadband