One of those little details that, probably, only I care about ... a year ago, when dealing with AI scraper problems, I observed that almost all of the traffic came from IPv4 addresses — millions of them.
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One of those little details that, probably, only I care about ... a year ago, when dealing with AI scraper problems, I observed that almost all of the traffic came from IPv4 addresses — millions of them. Use of IPv6 was a pretty strong indication that there was a human involved.
Now, when we get a heavy attack wave, it is strongly dominated by IPv6 addresses; the bots seem to actively prefer IPv6.
I wonder if it's because IPv6 addresses are more likely to remain unique through NAT boxes, giving these sleazy people yet more IP addresses to bring down web sites with? -
One of those little details that, probably, only I care about ... a year ago, when dealing with AI scraper problems, I observed that almost all of the traffic came from IPv4 addresses — millions of them. Use of IPv6 was a pretty strong indication that there was a human involved.
Now, when we get a heavy attack wave, it is strongly dominated by IPv6 addresses; the bots seem to actively prefer IPv6.
I wonder if it's because IPv6 addresses are more likely to remain unique through NAT boxes, giving these sleazy people yet more IP addresses to bring down web sites with?@corbet Not everyone has access to a large pool of IPv4 addresses. Perhaps the new scrapers are therefore just different entities?
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