Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:53:25 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Andrew Heyn <aheyn@jmsent.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: paranoia Message-ID: <20050217025325.GB1035@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <CLELJKHKLJLNMNHGHFIDAECHCBAA.aheyn@jmsent.com> References: <CLELJKHKLJLNMNHGHFIDAECHCBAA.aheyn@jmsent.com>
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:35:50PM -0800, Andrew Heyn wrote: > I always see people replace their IPs with fake replacements. > Is this paranoia really warranted? Why not disconnect the cat5 if you want > to do this? If they're smart and know what they are doing, it will make things easier to read: Machine A and Machine B are easier to recognize than 192.218.32.34 and 129.218.34.32. If they are not smart or misinformed, it will things impossible to understand what is going on: x.y.z.35 and x.y.z.24 is totally the wrong anonymousation[sp] of 1.2.3.35 and 5.6.7.24. It will also give the wrong assumptions when you think it are both public addresses while one is, or both are, private RFC addresses. And than the third group who complain that their DNS server isn't properly working and then give ns1.exmaple.org and test.example.org because they want to anonymize it :-) If they want to be paranoid, let them be. It will only make debugging harder because they don't give the raw data. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
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