Re:Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
by sammax on Saturday December 12, 2020 @11:00AM
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how do they do that?
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Re:Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
by judge2020 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @11:26AM
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One example is the Hola VPN which, in itself, is a VPN that uses other users' connections to act as a VPN to almost all countries, but they also sell access to this network of IPs via https://luminati.io/.
Re:Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
by freehunter on Saturday December 12, 2020 @11:27AM
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Basically like Tor, some VPNs route someone else's VPN connection through your VPN client. If I want an IP address in Sweden and someone in Sweden wants a US address some VPN companies would just route our traffic through each other's home addresses (potentially leaving you on the hook for what the other user was doing).