Re: [LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing

2020-10-13 Thread David Lochrin
Thanks everyone for this very interesting discussion. On 2020-10-14 10:08, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Besides, there is a privacy advantage to IP address sharing anyway. With an > encrypted connection (HTTPS), when you connect to 23.236.62.147, your ISP > (and your government) doesn't know which

Re: [LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing

2020-10-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On 13/10/20 10:37 pm, David Lochrin wrote: I searched for 23.236.62.147 on https://dnslytics.com/reverse-ip as you suggested, and that site reported "Found 6,281,493 domains hosted on IP address 23.236.62.147". Over six million IP domains hanging on one address!! I can't imagine the

Re: [LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing

2020-10-13 Thread jwhit
 Update correction:Seems this wasn't an IP sharing issue. At least I don't think so. There was a different problem beyond my understanding.Just wanted to clear that up. Jan - Original Message - From: jw...@internode.on.net To:"Link" Cc: Sent:Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:32:18 +1100 Subject:Re:

Re: [LINK] GP online exam tech fail

2020-10-13 Thread Tom Worthington
On 12/10/20 8:48 am, jw...@internode.on.net wrote: ... For over 1000 people!!How in the world was that ever going to work? ... There are specialized online proctoring products, such as ProctorU and Proctorio. These run an application in the user's computer which limits what they have access

Re: [LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing

2020-10-13 Thread Karl Auer
On Tue, 2020-10-13 at 22:37 +1100, David Lochrin wrote: > I searched for 23.236.62.147 on https://dnslytics.com/reverse-ip as > you suggested, and that site reported "Found 6,281,493 domains hosted > on IP address 23.236.62.147". Over six million IP domains hanging on > one address!! That

Re: [LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing

2020-10-13 Thread David Lochrin
On 2020-10-13 14:27, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > This is name-based virtual hosting, and has been part of HTTP since 1.1 and > HTTPS since more recently. It is necessary because there's nowhere near > enough IPv4 address space for every web site in existence (in addition to all > the client

Re: [LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing

2020-10-13 Thread Karl Auer
On Tue, 2020-10-13 at 17:32 +1100, jw...@internode.on.net wrote: > Interesting.Here's another example. A group I'm in was starting to > be blocked by Malwarebytes. We couldn't figure it out. Then someone > tracked it down that the host was using the IP number for two > different orgs and

Re: [LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing

2020-10-13 Thread jwhit
  Interesting.Here's another example. A group I'm in was starting to be blocked by Malwarebytes. We couldn't figure it out. Then someone tracked it down that the host was using the IP number for two different orgs and Malwarebytes didn't like it one bit. (pun not intended - heh)  One of the site