Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses

Re:Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses by knorker on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:08AM (#25397742)

When's the last time you gave an IPv4 address over the phone?

I've been in networking for 30 years, worked for multiple multinational ISPs, and the answer is basically never.

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Re:Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses by lizknope on Saturday December 12, 2020 @08:19AM (#25398071)

6 months ago.

I let about 10 family and friends connect directly to my home server. My firewall blocks everything except for these 10 IP addresses.

I did get tired of having them figure out their IP address so now I just tell them to access a dummy page page on my external VPS and I check the web server log to see their IP to add to my firewall config.

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Re:Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses by knorker on Saturday December 12, 2020 @09:04AM (#25398269)

So in other words IPv4's shorter addresses didn't help at all?

And also it seems like a lot to sacrifice in order to make something marginally more helpful about once or twice a year.

Also why would you say it over the phone? Would you not ask them to email or IM it? I can't count the number of times passwords and names have been misunderstood over the phone. Numbers? Basically always at least one number is misheard.

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Re:Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses by adventured on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:30AM (#25397834)

> When's the last time you gave an IPv4 address over the phone?

1990s, Quake.

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Re:Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses by benhurmarcel on Saturday December 12, 2020 @07:42AM (#25397882)

Every time I call tech support at my job so that they can remote in. Granted, it's the IP on the company's network so it can stay IPv4 forever.

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