Posted on 09/27/2018 4:57:38 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Somebody working from a House of Representatives office is editing the Wikipedia pages of Republican senators to post what looks like their home addresses.
Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and both Mike Lee and Orrin Hatch of Utah all had their home addresses posted online. It is called doxxing, and it is despicable.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Any address assigned dynamically, such as a DHCP server, keeps a log of the MAC Address that it assigned the IP address to. Easy to trace to the specific device.
Then you get the log from that device which says when the web site was visited and who was signed on at the time.
Good, thank you. One more federal job that can be eliminated. Actually someone needs to go to jail over this.
Meh, fine with me. Maybe now they’ll start to care about when it happens to regular conservative citizens. They probably didn’t even know it was a thing until it happened to them. Get woke, fellas!
Theoretically a DHCP server can give you a different IP address every time you logout and login again. After all, that's what the "Dynamic" in DHCP refers to.
But in practice, what I've seen is that the same IP address keeps getting assigned to the same computer / wifi phone / hardwired smart TV / wifi or ethernet connected printers / etc. for practically forever.
The router identifies the computer (or WiFi client phone/printer/scanner/etc) that's asking the server to be "served" an IP address, by looking up the requester's MAC address. And if the router's cache shows that this MAC addr was previously assigned a certain IP, *and* if that IP addr is currently unassigned, then most routers (in my experience) will re-use the previously-used IP address.
I've seen this behavior at several levels: A) With every home router I've ever had, B) With the IP addr that my ISP (Comcast) chooses for the "external" IP addr of my cable modem, and C) With the Cisco routers used by a previous employer of mine.
As far as (B) goes, I've noticed that many months go by - sometimes over a year or more - before Comcast assigns me a new IP address.
Thank you
Thanks Arthur Wildfire! March.
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