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Would IPv6 addresses mean scraping would be easier?
I don't think it will. Even though most providers offer IPv6 addresses in /64 blocks, the services you might want to scrape will consider any request coming from the same /64 IPv6 block as coming from the same user.
- I've got a new modem from aaisp.net and didn't have to do anything.
- I've checked an "IPV6 (BETA!)" checkbox in my hosting provider's control panel.
- I've copied & pasted my new IP and added it to AAAA records for my domains.
And to my surprise, everything just worked. My mobile phone used IPv6 even before I knew. I didn't have to troubleshoot anything. The biggest snag I ran into is that `ping` has a separate `ping6` version.
Would IPv6 addresses mean scraping would be easier?
What do you mean scraping?
Web scraping. It is the process of using software to automaticly extract information from websites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping
Would IPv6 addresses mean scraping would be easier?
What do you mean scraping?
IPv6 deployment looks like now. It's finally happening, but slowly.
As a professional, you can ignore it for now, but soon you will be expected to know it and be able to operate it. I give it 5 more years.
Google currently gets 9% of their traffic over IPv6: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html IPv6 adoption is already at the point where it is relevant to your security checks. If IPv6 clients are exempt from your security, that is a problem right now.
I'm running the site over AWS EC2, so apparently nobody could connect to me via IPv6 at the moment anyways.
For makers, it will hopefully look like the internet of the old days where you can just configure ACLs and/or crypto keys to allow traffic from one place to the other instead of using a towering stack of configuration tooling to manage address mappings, port forwardings and private DNS zones, and fighting rfc1918 addressing conflicts. Security engineering is largely about managing complexity and having a firm grasp o…
that's because they have plenty of v4 space, which is now a competitive advantage. have you tried to get even a /24 lately? pay up, sucker. bitspace is now a market with exponential returns.
it's the ultimate barrier to entry. the faster they move on it, the less of a barrier it will be to the competition. so why should they?
welcome to the new microsoft. except this time, we're all eating it up and loving it for some reason (that's another post...)