What can you do to get a new IPv6 network that is easier than getting a new IPv4?
Stuff like bouncing a modem, getting a new VPS, making a VPN connection I would expect to be pretty similar. And getting a block officially allocated to you is a lot of work.
Yes, the specific block of blocking Cloudflare in Spain during La Liga matches literally has gone through a court and been ordered by a judge, I'm not sure how you could have missed this. Judges have also dismissed the requests from Cloudflare and others to remove the "dynamic block" as there is collateral damage.
My understanding was that cloudflare was being blocked by the same IP blocking list as everything else. And while that system went through courts, the list didn't.
There are also direct actions against cloudflare, but that's not what's taking everything down, is it?
The sites are directed to be blocked by IP and DNS, this is the list I suppose you're talking about, I'm not sure of any specific "system vs list" distinction. Since some of the sites are behind Cloudflare, some of the IPs are IPs used by Cloudflare for any customer, not just the streams, so then Cloudflare gets blocked wholesale, the collateral damage that we get to joyfully experience every game.
Remains to be seen if the block will remain in place or not, you could argue it goes against some other laws, but it has to be argued legally, just like how the block initially happened because La Liga went through the courts. So far us developers or people who visit more American websites tend to be hit the worst, since they're talking about "protecting" other matches too, in other sports, I'm guessing it'll get worse before it gets better.
It could fit best practices if your datacenter has one tenant and they want to put the entire thing on a single subnet? In general I would expect a datacenter to get something like a /48 minimum. Even home connections are supposed to get more than /64 allocated.
And Linode's default setup only gives each server a single /128. That's not how it's supposed to work. But you can request /64 or /56.
If the OS uses SLAAC by default, then it will just work, but SLAAC is for humans and makes less sense for web servers (yet can make sense for vpn servers). For web servers /128 is more meaningful.
I mean... I could have asked, and they might have been able to transfer, but there's no user accessible way to make it happen, and you can't (or couldn't) make a new order while one was pending. But I was coming back from kid's hockey practice and tired and now mad at mcdonalds, so I wasn't going to wait in line to ask. I have ordered to the wrong Starbucks, where they do start your order when you place it, and they were able to see the order and remake it at the one I actually showed up at, but Starbucks is always super nice whenever anything goes wrong, even if when it's my fault, which it usually is.
Not being able to start a new order is also great when you had a successful order that the app didn't notice and then you have to clear app data days later when you want to order again... but I think McDonalds may have added a button to just order anyway in the past not too long.
Stuff like bouncing a modem, getting a new VPS, making a VPN connection I would expect to be pretty similar. And getting a block officially allocated to you is a lot of work.
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