I assume the $2B valuation is precisely because of services like AWS needing so many
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The Internet detects geoblocking as damage and routes around it?
It's always good for a VPN to deny any information about the customer to a server, I would imagine that's not what was referred to as sketchy. Making a user indistinguishable from a typical user from country X is just the VPN doing its job correctly. It seems, however, that at least some VPN providers use their customers' bandwidth without their knowledge to route other customers through it. I'd say that qualifies as…
I agree in principle, but sometimes it’s hard.
I pay a significant amount of money for MLB streaming, only to have many games blacked out. Due to various factors, I cannot legally get access to those games.
Re: Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
#224What, besides DNS, is preventing the migration to IPv6? Is it old technology still in use? My house is completely IPv6 and not intentionally so.
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Industry leaders like NordVPN and ExpressVPN may engage in P2P routing (to use residential IPs especially) to unblock services like Netflix and Disney+ [1]. HolaVPN unapologetically does this too [2]. All of this is discounting the new-age dVPNs like Orchid (not quite the Tor replacement that was promised? [3]) and Mysterium [4]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
Back at home the company behind NordVPN is touted as a top company.Recenly was reading an article that they'll be moving to new premises, as they've already got 1500 working for them.
That’s the thing that is so bizarre about VPNs. That’s a big company — why do people trust them?
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#226Let's use IPv6 more and it'll worth far less than $2B.
The problem with IPv6 is that it's a fundamentally flawed design. Which looks easier to input / dictate over the phone / write down somewhere? 220.12.30.01 or 2001:cdba:0000:0000:0000:0000:3257:9652?
You are confusing a difference of opinion on the style of output opposed to the functional operation. IPv6 works very well.
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The problem with IPv6 is that it's a fundamentally flawed design. Which looks easier to input / dictate over the phone / write down somewhere? 220.12.30.01 or 2001:cdba:0000:0000:0000:0000:3257:9652?
Use DNS, that’s what it’s there for. MAC addresses aren’t referred to as fundamentally flawed and they are approximately the same length as the shorted version of the address you posted.
Forget DNS. Use an overlay with content routing. Hierarchies suck.
It's extremely hyperbolic to call an ugly syntax a bad "design". But IMO it would have been much nicer if they just reused '.' as in IPv4. ':' seemingly came out of their pie in the sky desire to replace MACs.
Speaking of MACs, every time every time I see some cheap trash gizmo come with its own MAC I'm surprised there isn't address space pressure. I guess that's due to having 16 more bits as well as being non-aggregable.
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Well, at some point the governments will actually start doing their jobs and ban IPv4 compatible hardware for sale, just like they did for obsolete analog/digital TV tuners and incandescent light bulbs.
What are you talking about?
IPv4-compatible equipment is bad because it slows down the transition from IPv4 (aka ARPANET) to IPv6 (aka Internet). Since the free market seems to have trouble to find incentives to do it itself, the governments should force it, in the same way that they forced the transitions from obsolete TV tuners and incandescent light bulbs.
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> o far we haven't made use of it though as it's still a bit tricky to find providers that will announce your addresses (without asking a hefty amount of money for it). Vultr can do so https://www.vultr.com/features/bgp/ for no additional cost.
Thanks! I'm aware of them, but you need two peers to be able to announce your IP space (multi-homing requirement). AWS actually also allows you to bring your own IPs, so we might indeed go Vultr+AWS for now.
It’s only the RIR which requests proof you will multi-home and you must have been able to say to which AS you would peer to get the /22, since it’s a question RIPE asks as standard and the analyst will have considered in approving your application.
BGP itself doesn’t care at all. Announce the entire block from one “region” in Vultr, or split it out with a /24 in four different ones. It’ll work just fine.
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My startup offers a residential IP sharing model where users get paid to share their bandwidth: https://packetstream.io
Can you explain why Go and Postgres are listed as technology partners?
I seen that too. PayPal and Stripe on the list also. I think it's just a list of all the providers and software/tools they themselves used. Seems maybe a little misleading, wonder if people might think they are endorsed by Stripe, etc?