Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 23:14, "Julian Mehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You cannot verify the IP address *exactly*, but you can verify > > whether the IP address lies within a range. Dial-up users could at > > least register a certain address range, so as to vastly mitigate the > > attack risk. Apart from that, as soon as the use of IPv6 broadens, > > dynamically assigned IP addresses will diminish. > > That will work in some situations, but not in all.
True. But even though it might not prevent *all* attacks, it will prevent *many*, without incurring additional costs or adding considerable complexity to the Debian Developer apparatus, will it not?
