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Rotate VPN addresses (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/networking@sh.itjust.works

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I am using a VPN provider whose IP addresses are mostly blocked by streaming services and YouTube. This is not a problem for me, since I can often just obfuscate the address with some of their proxy solutions.

Without having any real understanding of how third party VPN providers work under the hood, my questions is, would it be possible for the VPN provider to implement an end user function, like a "vote button" or the likes, that reports when a certain address is blocked by a certain web service and then - for instance, when enough end users have reported a specific IP address as blocked - simply rotate/exchange that IP address to circumvent the blockage?

I'd like to suggest this to my provider if it's viable at all.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The minimum quantity depends on what level you're buying at. A retail isp will go as small as a /29. I don't think I've ever seen them do a /30, but it's been a while. The biggest they would probably do is a /24.

Now if you were talking to a big-name IP address broker, you could probably get as big as an /8 and as small as a /24. But an /8 would probably cost billions of dollars, if anyone is willing to sell at all. You'd probably have to buy the whole company.

[–] litchralee@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

At this point, anyone that is even thinking of acquiring a /8 should instead spend that money on building IPv6 infra instead. And they'd still have tens of millions of dollars leftover.

I would be thrilled if one day, the only remaining customers for Legacy IP addresses are the hyperscalar cloud providers. Let them hoard them all, so long as everyone else has a viable IPv6 Internet to use.