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
Subject:Re: [LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing   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

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
Message - From: "David Lochrin" To:"Link" Cc: Sent:Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:59:42 +1100 Subject:[LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing I've been doing a little amateur covid-19 epidemiology for a few months now. While tracking down some reliable statistics on the number of act

Re: [LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing

2020-10-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On 13/10/20 1:59 pm, David Lochrin wrote: I presume Google-Cloud has sub-allocated a space containing 23.236.62.147 to wix.com, and wix.com is even sharing that specific address between , , and no doubt others by parsing DNS lookups. I know I'm retired and rapidly becoming out of touch, but

[LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing

2020-10-12 Thread David Lochrin
I've been doing a little amateur covid-19 epidemiology for a few months now. While tracking down some reliable statistics on the number of active caes recently, I came across two otherwise unrelated websites with the same IP address: 23.236.62.147, namely and . (, , and no doubt others by