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IPv6 makes it trivial to come up with a mind boggling number of ip addresses. You don't even have to leave your network
by malfist 3y ago
IPv6 makes it trivial to come up with a mind boggling number of ip addresses. You don't even have to leave your network
- jsnell 3y agoNobody does rate limiting or other abuse work on a full /128. Typically a /64 is treated as the equivalent of an IPv4 address.
- charcircuit 3y agoThis will have many false positives. Especially if the address is from a mobile network.
- zhfliz 3y agopeople don't care about false positives on CGNAT either, so not much difference to the IPv4 situation if you target /64s
- costco 3y agoLast I read this is how Instagram rate limits IPV6. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32687694 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32687694 So apparently not enough false positives for them to care.
- fulafel 3y agoIs it common for mobile networks to hand out short (64 or smaller) prefixes to phones? Phones are routers after all (hotspot) so this would seem to break stuff.
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- TekMol 3y agoFirst of all, Twitter does not support IPv6. Secondly, if they would, they could simply rate limit by the first x chars of the address.