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Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

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597 points classichasclass | 1 comments | 25 Aug 25 04:23 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Etheryte ◴[25 Aug 25 05:39 UTC] No.45010574[source]▶
One starts to wonder, at what point might it be actually feasible to do it the other way around, by whitelisting IP ranges. I could see this happening as a community effort, similar to adblocker list curation etc.
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delusional ◴[25 Aug 25 05:50 UTC] No.45010624[source]▶
At that point it almost sounds like we're doing "peering" agreements at the IP level.

Would it make sense to have a class of ISPs that didn't peer with these "bad" network participants?

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shortrounddev2 ◴[25 Aug 25 06:05 UTC] No.45010714[source]▶
Why not just ban all IP blocks assigned to cloud providers? Won't halt botnets but the IP range owned by AWS, GCP, etc is well known
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1. jjayj ◴[25 Aug 25 07:10 UTC] No.45011141[source]▶
But my work's VPN is in AWS, and HN and Reddit are sometimes helpful...

Not sure what my point is here tbh. The internet sucks and I don't have a solution