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Not a counterexample exactly, but your remark reminded me of this eldritch horror: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-servers-dont-own-ips-anymore/ https://

Not a counterexample exactly, but your remark reminded me of this eldritch horror: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-servers-dont-own-ips-anymore/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-servers-dont-own-ips-... TLDR: Cloudflare is using five bits from the port number as a subnetting & routing scheme, with optional content policy semantics, for hosts behind anycast addressing and inside their network boundary. Filed in my bookmarks under "abominations".

jbernsteiniv 3y ago
From the link: "A lot of Cloudflare's technology is well documented. For example, how we handle traffic between the eyeballs (clients) and our servers has been discussed" Already 1 sentence in and we've already got Eldritchian horrors with customers described as just their watery orbs in their skull.