• @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    Most people don’t have static IP addresses, so banning their IP will only stop them temporarily. Then whoever gets that dynamic IP address next will be banned too. Then there’s CGNAT where 1 IP address can have up to 128 people using it at once and the address changes even more frequently.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      We’re talking about temporary bans here, which do work against spam. Private users do have dynamic IPs, but at home I think I’ve had the same IP for years. They don’t wildly switch them around.

      On second thought the IP is probably not federated though, so if there isn’t a common IP block list which instances subscribe to it won’t work.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Every time my router restarts I get a fresh wan IP. I can also manually grab a new one via the DHCP release/renew functions in it’s config page.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 year ago

          Weird, are you 100% sure? I can restart my router all day, my ISP gives me the same IP back pretty much every time.

          Probably depends on the ISP.

      • m-p{3}
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        121 year ago

        MAC address is a Level 2 addressing system (OSI model) and will not leave the local network / stay within the broadcast domain. The web browser will not expose this kind of information to a web server.

      • TheOneCurly
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        81 year ago

        MAC address isn’t something a remote server knows about a client. Only the IP you should respond to is provided.