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That feature isn't as nuts as you think. Clearly the IPv6 space doesn't compress 1-1 into the IPv4 space but this gives you way to work with the top 64 bits of
by jgrahamc 9y ago
That feature isn't as nuts as you think.
Clearly the IPv6 space doesn't compress 1-1 into the IPv4 space but this gives you way to work with the top 64 bits of the IPv6 address and then feed it into your anti-abuse system. If your abuse system works probabilistically then this isn't too problematic as this becomes just another signal. And IPv4-based systems already deal with multiple people behind the same IP because of NAT.
- peterwwillis 9y agoYou have users who can already access a site using IPv4, but want to use IPv6, and you have an anti-abuse system that lacks support, so you decided to invent a new kind of NAT, rather than require the customer to just fix their anti-abuse system, which they'd need to do on other platforms anyway? The feature isn't nuts, but the rationale seems so.
- jgrahamc 9y agoHow could we 'require a customer to just fix their anti-abuse system'?