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| quote: | Originally posted by SuperFarStucker
actually you can usually uniquely identify somebody down to the last octet (which is usually what changes). Saying IP's are dynamic is entirely true but its a bit misleading. ISPS lease out "blocks" of space and your typically put on a block of lines that never changes or not by much. For example your IP one time you connect might be 63.166.207.169 and then the next time you connect it might be 63.166.207.88 or 63.166.206.12. this isn't that big of a difference, the first 2 octets will always be the same and the 3rd will only be different by a couple numbers. What is more, is that the reverse-dns lookups for these IPS will be nearly identical. The chances of anyone else on this board having even a remotely similar IP address are negligible i surmise ^^. Unless he was smart and used a proxy to register and post.. then there is no way to ever find out |
Or if he is on an ISP that uses closed proxy, as ISPs are being required to do this as the world is running out of IP addresses and they are all being shifted for DNS, websites, etc for the most part. Just about all of the large ISPs in the US are working on converting over to this (AOL is by far the furthest along). It makes adminning boards very difficult, though, because if you ban one IP address you tend to ban a lot more than one person (eg. I banned an AOL IP address on another board and it banned over 1,500 people ;p)
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