Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:37:17 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Mark Summerfield <m.summerfield@ee.mu.oz.au> Cc: Frank Bonnet <bonnetf@bart.esiee.fr>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP address abuse ... Message-ID: <387C9FAD.2243D875@softweyr.com> References: <200001111057.LAA17219@bart.esiee.fr> <4.2.0.58.20000112121617.00ae0380@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au>
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Mark Summerfield wrote:
>
> At 12:03 11/01/00 -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> >Frank Bonnet wrote:
> > >
> > > Our primary DNS runs FreeBSD and we are facing
> > > a boring problem , some stupid student has
> > > put the same IP address than the DNS on a Linux (mandrake)
> > > machine , then our FreeBSD said "someone has taken my IP address"
> > > and stop to serve our LAN ...
> > >
> > > Is it possible with FreeBSD to avoid such trouble ?
> > > ( arpwatch is running on this machine )
> >
> >You do have sledgehammers in .fr, don't you? Take one and bash his machine
> >into several thousand small pieces, then explain to him that stealing IP
> >addresses is a TRES bad thing to do.
>
> This does seem to be the best solution -- and has widespread support ;-)
I ran this past a couple of coworkers, whose universal reply can be summed
up as "why waste a good machine, apply the sledgehammer to the user instead."
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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