[lagadu]

I always found it funny how ip bans seemed to be so popular despite being apparently completely ineffective until I realized this was mostly a US thing. In my country (2 of them that I've lived in, in fact) ISPs always assign the client a dynamic address from their very large pools every time I reconnect. This was as true back in the 28.8kb dial up days as it is in the 10gbit FTTH days we live in. Having a static IP address here has always been a service you have to pay for.

I remember this being hilarious when idiots would ip ban me back on the IRC days: "oh no, I have to press the reconnect button!"

[BlueTemplar]

Is it ? I'm not in the US and I've always had a fixed IP.

Which seems to have been best practice for IPv4 and is still best practice with IPv6 :

https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690/#5--end-user...