[dundee] Script Kiddie attack: in which our intrepid heroes nearly die of laughter

[Iain Barnett]

On 12 Nov 2009, at 11:08, gordon dunlop wrote:

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> 2009/11/12 Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk>
> it changes you internal nat address, your external un-natted  
> address should stay.
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> Well you tell me why my external IP address changed when I changed  
> my router. This was at the time when I was testing the TayLUG  
> website on my home server and I was having port forwarding problems  
> with the first router. The consequence of changing routers meant  
> that I had to change the IP settings on the DNS server to properly  
> point to the TayLUG website on my home server.
>
> Gordon
>

unless it's on a static IP (which is unlikely since Gordon's not  
mentioned it), then it's entirely likely that a new address would be  
given out if there was any time between the release and the renew,  
and if the new router had a different MAC address.

It's DHCP, innit.

Iain


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