On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:48:01PM -0400, Michael Burger wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:44:43 -0400, Darren R. Weber wrote:
> >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?
> Pretty much. The thing about DHCP is that the server maintains a
> database...that database keeps track of the IP address and the MAC
> address to which it was last assigned. It keeps that information
> until the lease runs out.
Well... I can't say so much about pump, but dhcpcd has a release
option that specifically issues a RELEASE back to the server releasing the
lease and returning the address back to the pool. Now... That just puts
you back to where you started from and that's at the mercy of the dhcp
server. Next time you request a new lease, it may give you the old
address or it may give you a new address. You also have to make sure
that you blow away anything you have cached on the client side (which
the release option for dhcpcd does).
> The other thing to consider is whether or not your DSL provider has
> hardcoded your system for that IP.
That would be a problem.
> The other possibility is that you could call your provider and ask
> them to reassign your IP address.
I would do a whois on the address of the annoyance and track
down his ISP. Send letters of complaint to the ISP, the POC for the
address, and several postmasters at the ISP site. Raise enough hell
with the administrators responsible for the network he's on and the
word will eventually rain down on him. If you don't do this, you may
get the address released, but that just passes the problem onto the
next guy who gets it.
Mike
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