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going on a bit of a tangent here - some discussion there seems to be imply that AI bots mostly use IPv4s, which makes sense to me given that they are probably b
by c-fe 2mo ago
going on a bit of a tangent here - some discussion there seems to be imply that AI bots mostly use IPv4s, which makes sense to me given that they are probably bots hosted by some cloud. Whereas IPv6 may be more organic traffic from e.g. mobile users (not in this case probably)... which made me think if at some point IPv6 may at some point win against IPv4 just because its more organic traffic (i.e. not from big tech cloud), leading to pages blocking IPv4? Just speculation on my side
- thayne 2mo agoMy residential ISP doesn't support IPv6 at all. If a site is ipv6 only, I can't reach it unless I use a VPN.
- neuroticnews25 2mo agoThis is weird, every VPS I've rented in the last 8 years had IPv6, and some didn't even had IPv4.
- TingPing 2mo agoIf a problematic bot is on any mainstream VPS it will just get shut down.
- Symbiote 2mo agoHow would I shut down a bot on Digital Ocean making over a million requests a day?
- coldbrewed 2mo agoSend an email to the Digitalocean abuse email with the time ranges and origin IPs.
- neuroticnews25 2mo agoI did this with OVH, never got any response.
- progval 2mo agoabuse@ contacts never send responses (though some send acknowledgements) because they don't want to give any details about their abuse process.
- Retr0id 2mo agoThe hardest-to-mitigate bot traffic tends to come from residential proxies, and most residential connections are still v4-only. However, it is also easy to get large numbers of v6 addresses cheaply.