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On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:36:52 +0200, Peter T. Breuer staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Your experience is confined to machines on LANs and machines that have static IPs, then. Get out of the ivory tower sometime; the real world is an interesting place!

Say what?

You previously said "license keys are always tied to the IP." That's got to be bogus, because my desktop x86 has had at least 3 IPs over the last 6 months. It's hooked to a cablemodem and is rarely rebooted (change PCI cards around, power failure, kernel upgrade.) If I followed "normal user" patterns and turned it off while I was sleeping, it most certainly would've had over 30 different IPs over the last 6 months. I use dyndns.org so that I don't have to remember which IP I have this week, but that is of course useless for software licensing for obvious reasons.

And what if the OP's machine isn't connected to a network at all? What then? Most people with dialup aren't hooked up 24-7. How is this commercial app going to verify anything with an IP of 127.0.0.1 and no way to connect to any other machine? I suppose it could say "you must be connected to the Net to use CommercialApp..." but that'd pee off so many users that CommercialApp would be CommercialCracked in less than a week.

...and dynamically-buttigned address pools (including modems, DSL, and cable pools) can have many different computers using the same IP over a week's worth of time.

Somebody's smoking here, and it ain't me.

-- Matt GThere is no Darkness in Eternity-But only Light too dim for us to see Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin mail: TRAP + SPAN don't belong ----------------------------- penguins, is Tux." --MegaHAL