Re: [question][code]gethostbyaddr....ports...

From: George (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 01/09/99


On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Invincibill wrote:

>thanks, i was thinking it would help me keep track of people who were
>definately multiplaying. what with all the ip spoofing and ip
>masquerading from the linux boxes and the firewalls and proxy servers,
>its easy for two people to have the same IP address and still be playing
>separate characters.  however, if they both have the same port number,
>i'm pretty sure thats an undeniable flag that somebody is multiplaying.

The port wouldn't be the same even if they were using the same client for
both connections.

--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org
http://www.van.ml.org/CircleMUD/


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