how does ipv6 change things

yjftsjthsd-h · on July 17, 2022

I dunno, I'm under the impression that v4 already sucks, just that the pain is felt on the other end - users who are IP-banned because their ISP does Carrier-grade NAT, cellphone users who randomly cycle through banned IPs as their phone changes addresses, that kind of thing.

joib · on July 17, 2022

I'm impressed that someone managed to get my ISP's entire IPv6 address range banned indefinitely from editing Wikipedia.

bpodgursky · on July 17, 2022

Didn't the entire nation of Qatar get blocked at one point?

Edit: lol yep https://techcrunch.com/2007/01/01/wikipedia-bans-qatar

aoetalks · on July 17, 2022

> Apparently Qatar has a single ISP, Qtel, with a single IP address shared by the entire country.

Wut?

simondotau · on July 17, 2022

https://superuser.com/questions/1013630/why-does-qatar-use-a...

longtermaway · on July 17, 2022

For the most devoted trolls, it doesn't. It's possible to "rent" residential IPs. One guy I tracked for about a year would somethings use such IPs. I knew they were him because he was too sloppy to change his behavior and language.

bawolff · on July 17, 2022

Not much. Ip addresses are longer. You are more likely to get a range block due to the practise of individual customers getting a range of ips.

But really, not much is very different.

remram · on July 17, 2022

Probably not, Wikipedia will ban /48s or similar.