How can three people drown in this pool ?

Hyburnate · 26 Oct 2020 at 17:03

FoxEye said:
A lot of people will be sharing an IP anyhow. Either at the ISP level or elsewhere.

We mostly don't all have unique IPs on the wwwibble

Pardon my ignorance, how does port forwarding work in that case?

413x · 26 Oct 2020 at 17:08

Werewolf said:
Nyet.

I dunno why. But I almost peed my pants at this.

That reply. To own post was gold.

NVP · 26 Oct 2020 at 17:17

Dis86 said:
Oh yes.

Just found a doozy! Shame it was locked

looks like a fun guy

glenimp617 · 26 Oct 2020 at 17:34

Hyburnate said:
Pardon my ignorance, how does port forwarding work in that case?

Everyone has a unique external IP address. You can see it in your router. It's how plex works when you are away from home.

That said, a lot of ISPs route you through their own web proxy in order to block file sharing sites and whatnot. This will be what's recorded in companies webserver logs.

It's the same with VPNs where customers share IPs. That's why sometimes when using a VPN, and accessing sites you see "Your IP address has been banned". Streaming services are the same, and don't work because they ban the block of IPs the VPN providers use.

Eddie · 26 Oct 2020 at 17:54

Maccy said:
We're aware of quite a few at the mo

You're aware of people with multiple accounts? How come they haven't been banned yet?

On topic: The one person I'd like to hear from in this case is the staff member who tried to save them but found himself/herself struggling for his/her own life - haven't been able to find anything from him/her.

FoxEye · 26 Oct 2020 at 18:56

TheOracle said:
Everyone has a unique external IP address. You can see it in your router. It's how plex works when you are away from home.

Hmm I didn't think that was true either. Thought we'd run out of IPv4 addresses yonks ago. Isn't everything NAT'd to all hell and back these days? At the exchange, etc?

And lots of tower blocks, etc, sharing an IP?

That said, a lot of ISPs route you through their own web proxy in order to block file sharing sites and whatnot. This will be what's recorded in companies webserver logs.

It's the same with VPNs where customers share IPs. That's why sometimes when using a VPN, and accessing sites you see "Your IP address has been banned". Streaming services are the same, and don't work because they ban the block of IPs the VPN providers use.

Yup with TT I'm always seeing "You have been banned from editing" etc etc on Wikipedia and other places. Because we're all lumped together. I've never even edited a Wiki page lol.

Diddums · 26 Oct 2020 at 19:15

Uther said:
I was a mod on a forum once, and it's surprising how often people did that. Weird.
Major fail from Rubberduck/Diddums there.

Don't you dare tarnish my name like that :mad:

Hyburnate · 26 Oct 2020 at 19:57

Fairs I'm very much a LAN guy.

To be honest I hadn't considered the fact, I'd assume they don't NAT the IPv6 addresses these days?

Werewolf · 26 Oct 2020 at 20:01

Hyburnate said:
Fairs I'm very much a LAN guy.

To be honest I hadn't considered the fact, I'd assume they don't NAT the IPv6 addresses these days?

IPv4 is as has been said has been NAT'd up the wazoo, IIRC most of the mobile phone providers have everyone going through a handful of external IP's.

IPv6 has barely been implemented and most normal ISP's don't seem to be using it at all, and still have to maintain compatibility with IPv4 for services that don't support it.

Django x2 · 26 Oct 2020 at 20:30

I have 5 static IPs, not shared with anyone, not that that relates to pool depth

SexyGreyFox · 26 Oct 2020 at 21:48

I'm pretty sure the Mods log our IPs because I was reminded in a thread that I use multiple

I'm in Germany at the moment, tomorrow I may be in Holland.

Blackjack Davy · 27 Oct 2020 at 03:32

TheOracle said:
People like arguing, and it doesn't matter what their personal point of view is either.

Alt accounts ensures they keep up the argument, by either arguing against themselves, or adding a supporting view for validation.

It's pretty much the height of internet sadness.

I imagine the other reason is duplicate orders of things that are limited to one per customer like certain gfx cards I could mention

SexyGreyFox said:
I'm pretty sure the Mods log our IPs because I was reminded in a thread that I use multiple
I'm in Germany at the moment, tomorrow I may be in Holland.

Don't all sites log IP's as a matter of course? Pretty sure they do.