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

[Antony D'Auria]

Used to be like that, quiet a few years ago IIRC [with Cable/Blueyonder,
where I'm from in Essex anyway]. You could change it on their web self
service page.

Ant

2009/11/13 Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk>

> i thought cable providers only allowed one mac address, and if you changed
> it
> you had to re register it. however i may be wrong.
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> --- On *Thu, 12/11/09, gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com>* wrote:
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> From: gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Script Kiddie attack: in which our intrepid heroes
> nearly die of laughter
> To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
> Date: Thursday, 12 November, 2009, 14:57
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> 2009/11/12 Iain Barnett <iainspeed at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=iainspeed@gmail.com>
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>> On 12 Nov 2009, at 11:08, gordon dunlop wrote:
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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.
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>> Gordon
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>> 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.
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>> It's DHCP, innit.
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> Virgin Media cable ties the IP address to the customers hardware MAC
> address. When you use a different router that has a different MAC address
> than the IP/MAC address pair that is registered in the database does not
> match, then a new IP address is automatically issued. The good thing about
> this is that as long as your router holds good you are practically getting a
> static IP address which is great for running a home server operating
> personal (non-commercial) websites etc. Because I had only been with Virgin
> for just over a year, I was asking previously about how long people have had
> the same IP address hoping to get the reply "I have had the same IP address
> for 5 years" or whatever.
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> Gordon
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>> Iain
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