-----Original Message-----
From: Darren R. Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, October 20, 2000 7:14 PM
Subject: IP address and pump
>Is there a way to force pump to get a different address? Here is the
reason I ask.
>
>I know I can tell it to release, and then restart it but it just gets the
same address again. I am on DSL and some idiot in Miami has apparently set
up my IP as a nameserver. I have ipchains running and denying almost
everything so there is no immediate problem, but I also log some packets and
this stuff is filling my log with garbage every two seconds. I have tried
to stop this several times in various ways, even to the extent of crashing
the box on the other end. (It's a windows box. . .did a little digging on
it:-) ) That worked but only temporarily and if I continue to do that
I'm going to get myself into trouble. So I figured the easy thing to do
would be to try to get a different IP.
>
>Is the only way to release my current IP and wait until the server has had
time to give out the old one?
>
Probably the easiest way is to stop logging DNS requests, and wait for your
lease to change. Otherwise, you might set up a TCP wrapper trap and cause
the little idiot to want to go elsewhere. Might even be funny to give him
DNS usage, but set it up to hand out wrong info. You could point your own
machine elsewhere temporarily, it probably would only take a day or two to
drive most folks nuts. The tcp wrapper trap could be cute, if you
redirected the requests back to their source :) Up to you. Hope this
helps.
Jeff Hogg
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