I have been wasting so much time claiming up to 11 networks over the past week. All for you lot to steal all but 2 of them from me in as many hours. Give me a break. :)
I had an almost identical idea to this website a while ago but never acted on it, props to the dev.<p>Here is how you win the IPv4 games, in order of most to least effective:<p>1) Have a large online following that is willing to visit your claim link or a page where you can embed an iframe / img / etc that points to your claim link.<p>2) Pay to use someone else's (consensual) botnet by paying a residential proxy service, this is the approach I just used and it cost me a few dollars for access to a massive amount of distributed IPv4 space.<p>3) Abuse cloud / serverless offerings as far as they will go, unlikely to win more than a few blocks this way.<p>4) Own IPv4 space.<p>Other less ethical approaches: possibly exploit the system by sending a XFF header the developer forgot to block (probably just checking socket address so unlikely to work here), spin up a Vultr VPS in the same DC and probe for a way to connect with a local address, hijack BGP space, run your own botnet, I'm reminded of an old exploit in WordPress XMLRPC...<p>From what I can see the current rankings are just me and mike fighting for the same proxy space (the vote goes to the most recent visit per IP), and everyone else falls into buckets 3 & 4.
I managed to claim 64 out of 256 blocks using proxies from Bright Data[0] and PacketStream[1]. I claimed 49616 IP addresses within those 64 blocks. Unfortunately, the website doesn't tell you how many IP addresses someone claimed in total. Cool project!<p>[0] <a href="https://brightdata.com/" rel="nofollow">https://brightdata.com/</a>
[1] <a href="https://packetstream.io/" rel="nofollow">https://packetstream.io/</a>
Had some fun with this. I used fireprox[0] to grab a ton of AWS IPs, and some proxy vendors for some other random ranges. Sadly my ASN has only /24s in disparate ranges so it wouldn’t make a dent for most of them.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/ustayready/fireprox" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ustayready/fireprox</a>
I feel like this is a good time to plug Bot Net as a Service vendors like <a href="https://brightdata.com/" rel="nofollow">https://brightdata.com/</a>
This is really funny idea.<p>In this thread there is a comment wich talks about using AWS API Gateways for scraping. What are other great ways to get many different ips for scraping?
Beside residential proxies.
So some of them are public cloud, e.g. 3/8. And you can ran serverless there.
Other option is to use some open proxy servers.<p>What other options do people have?
<a href="https://youtu.be/bT8CRi9k4bo" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/bT8CRi9k4bo</a><p>I like the test claim from localhost :).
Tonight I discovered I could create 128 m2.micros from my AWS account no questions asked. Very very worrying. Much happier with Hetzner with an initial limit of 25.
This got me wondering that, in practice, how hard would it be to spoof source IP in the internet? I assume it requires some controls on an Tier-1 ISP network (so that the the spoofed package would not be filtered by upstream)?<p>Though apparently it doesn’t help in this case because it’s HTTP/TCP which requires a handshake