
On Saturday, 24 May 2025 at 04:16, Brandon Martin via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
I don't know what everybody is trying so hard to protect against, but the collateral damage has to be huge. I assume potential sales are lost somewhat frequently.
I agree. I understand what people are trying to protect against (attacks, DDoS yada yada yada). But sadly what I have been seeing a lot of is tarnishing people with the same brush. For example, there are many genuine and legitimate reasons for people to use a VPN service. And yet in recent months I have been seeing an attitude by many website operators that "its a VPN IP therefore it must be bad". Its like, come on guys. Playing whack-a-mole blocking IP addresses is so 1990. You have much better tools at your disposal these days. I would also love to hear how these whack-a-mole lovers plan on continuing their attitude when IPv6 becomes even more prevalent !