dave@feddit.uk to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 23 hours agoCIA tracing those IPv44 addressesfeddit.ukimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1267arrow-down14
arrow-up1263arrow-down1imageCIA tracing those IPv44 addressesfeddit.ukdave@feddit.uk to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squareneidu3@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59·edit-220 hours agoI never raised any eyebrows at IPs like these in movies and on TV. It’s just internet equivalent of fictitious phone numbers always containing 555.
minus-squareAgent641@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up36·19 hours agoYeah by using out-of-bounds numbers they avoid accidentally listing legitimate values who might get upset or free advertising
minus-squareKushan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 hours agoThere are already several reserved IP ranges for this kind of purpose, like 198.51.100.0/24 or 203.0.113.0/24.
minus-squareMimicJar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·18 hours agoThey could just use IPv6. Legitimately values or not no one is going to understand them, much less get upset by them.
minus-squarepivot_root@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·17 hours agoThe attack was coming from ::1 Or if that’s too unbelievable, fe80:: has some scary implications while also not likely to ever be a real device.
minus-squareexu@feditown.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·16 hours agoYou can also use 200::/7. It’s been deprecated since 2004
I never raised any eyebrows at IPs like these in movies and on TV. It’s just internet equivalent of fictitious phone numbers always containing 555.
Yeah by using out-of-bounds numbers they avoid accidentally listing legitimate values who might get upset or free advertising
There are already several reserved IP ranges for this kind of purpose, like 198.51.100.0/24 or 203.0.113.0/24.
They could just use IPv6. Legitimately values or not no one is going to understand them, much less get upset by them.
The attack was coming from ::1
Or if that’s too unbelievable, fe80:: has some scary implications while also not likely to ever be a real device.
You can also use
200::/7. It’s been deprecated since 2004Nice rabbithole, thanks