HOT ISP (Was: Orange as a landline ISP)

[Amos Shapira]

2009/2/6 Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>:
> Note that there is the drawback that some websites don't like when
> your IP address changes with every request, though! Apparently there
> is some American ISP that does this as well, and those users have
> problems with the same sites.

Yes, "some American ISP" probably refers to AOL, which does all its
external connections through huge clusters of HTTP proxies, and each
request can arrive through a different IP. Load-balancers relaying on
source IP to keep connection persistent (bundle all requests from one
client to same real server to save on shared session data migration)
would break on that, there are probably other situations (e.g.
paranoid financial institutions worried about session hijacking).

But if the egress traffic line switching doesn't happen so much and
the site he accesses doesn't rely on source IP so much (but more on
session identifiers like cookies and url parameters) he might get
through - at least better than being completely down with one line.

Just a though...

--Amos