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With the original IP, addresses are fairly expensive. With IPv6, even home users are assigned a /64 subnet at the smallest, so a malicious actor can iterate th
by mcpherrinm 9y ago
With the original IP, addresses are fairly expensive. With IPv6, even home users are assigned a /64 subnet at the smallest, so a malicious actor can iterate through many addresses. Generally for things like per-IP ratelimiting, you treat a whole IPv6 /64 subnet like you would treat a single IP address.