This is insane. Knowing IP by an means what so ever to ban a user. What will happen if a user has a dynamic IP ??
This is insane. Knowing IP by an means what so ever to ban a user. What will happen if a user has a dynamic IP ??
i'm assuming you have a dynamic ip address ... you'll get a new ip address that's near the same range, e.g. if you're old ip address was aa.bb.cc.dd.e, you're new ip address would be something like aa.cc.de.ffg.h or something along those lines; you won't get a completely different ip address like fff.g.hhh.i or something because it's coming from the same place, unless you're spoofing your ip address ;/Originally Posted by nixonsparanoia
turning off your modem time and time again won't do you much good because there will always be those 1 or 2 sections of similar digits that can be linked back to your original bad ip address; if can be evasive, however, if you were banned from a single ip (which is dumb), in which if you reset your modem your ip will refresh to something similar, but different
edit: fuck you, squirr3l
Thank you squirr3l and th0r. That's more or less what I thought. Most numbers will remain the same. It is therefore easily tracable...
But when trackers ban ONE IP ( not a range ) it is usually the registering IP, isn't it? They don't keep track of all the login IP's do they? If a person accessed from a wide range of IP's it should be o.k. to register again using one of those...
I'm asking this out of pure curiosity.
So is similar but different enough to provide me with some sense of anonymity, or will the person still be able to figure out it's me?
Originally Posted by leopalas
possibly; but then again, with such a wide range of varying ip address, the question of account sharing/trading comes up; if staff sees that ip ban and can match it to the parsed ip addresses of that account that come and go with that same account, then you'd be in more trouble
i'm not a programmer nor a staff member of any trackers, so i can't safely say whether or not trackers cache all ip addresses that view every account in some kind of encrypted log file, but i think it's safe so say that they do
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i think it depends on the script the tracker uses
i am sure most sites do have a way to track all ip logs for each account (notice i didn't say all site have those logs coz i know some don't)
and that is how they usually decent account trading- ip change
if you wanna get have a different IP for particular site, i have heard someone mention 'use private proxy' (i think you have to pay or something...idk) or you can use 'ip changer' (software) and use a particular ip, ip range or a proxy they provide.
edit: boogie th0r
Last edited by squirr3l; 02-15-2008 at 03:36 AM.
Yeah... I remember one time when I thought I had been banned from SITR just to find out that in fact they had banned an all range of IP's coming from my ISP... It turns out that they had a lot of cheaters coming from that ISP and I was caught in middle. It was a bit dramatic for me at the time cause SITR was one of the first trackers I had. I couldn't even access their page let alone try to login.I could only access through a proxy and that was so much slower that I just gave up... Later I managed to register with a different IP when I changed ISP.
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