• Agent641@lemmy.world
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    Yeah by using out-of-bounds numbers they avoid accidentally listing legitimate values who might get upset or free advertising

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      They could just use IPv6. Legitimately values or not no one is going to understand them, much less get upset by them.

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        The attack was coming from ::1

        Or if that’s too unbelievable, fe80:: has some scary implications while also not likely to ever be a real device.

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      There are already several reserved IP ranges for this kind of purpose, like 198.51.100.0/24 or 203.0.113.0/24.