Secure voice app: FEATURE REQUEST: RECORD IPs

Thomas Shaddack shaddack at ns.arachne.cz
Mon Jan 27 10:06:24 PST 2003


>    Pretty hard to do if people are using dialup. Or even dsl, unless they run a
> linux box they don't ever reboot -- although I've found my dsl ip changing
> sometimes on it's own, and with no rhyme or reason.

DSL lease timeout. A feature of DHCP-based dynamic IP addresses over
permanent connections. Similar for cable, though the differences yo
observed seem to be rather implementation-dependent than principial.

> Cable is a little more stable, when I had a cable modem it didn't
> change ip unless I shut off the modem for awhile, and not even always
> then.

Idea: What about a caller ID system, based on eg. SSL certificates or PGP
signed challenge-response?





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