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Often, banning whole ISPs is necessary to actually get rid of offenders. Hackers and griefers have known how to get new addresses from their DHCP pool for at le
by stephengillie 14y ago
Often, banning whole ISPs is necessary to actually get rid of offenders. Hackers and griefers have known how to get new addresses from their DHCP pool for at least 10 years, and now that they'll get access to an entire /64, many will be sure to exploit it.
In fact, I'll bet the malware-infested utility to automate this into a one-click process already exists.
- agwa 14y agoI don't disagree with that, but please do some investigation before banning an entire subnet, or wait until you actually observe a user jumping around the subnet. And never ban an entire ISP if you haven't first given their abuse department a chance to do the right thing. If you don't do this, you're harming innocent people.
- stephengillie 14y agoYour warning has merit, but it's a little out-of-scope for the problem. I'm not talking about banning people from playing Halo, I'm banning them from just my server for medium durations like a day or a week. And chances are they're the only person connecting to my server from that ISP -- each of the ~30 people on the server probably has a different ISP.