[HN Gopher] IPv4 Turf War
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       IPv4 Turf War
        
       Author : mogery
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2022-09-10 13:30 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (ipv4.games)
 (TXT) w3m dump (ipv4.games)
        
       | clayloam wrote:
       | Hey I made this!! Happy to see it getting attention. Feel free to
       | ask me anything!
        
         | PaoloBarbolini wrote:
         | Why are you doing a separate request for every /8? I feel like
         | this would be the first thing that would kill the site, if it
         | weren't for the fact you're on HTTP, the browser is talking
         | HTTP/1.1, so it only does 6 concurrent requests per domain.
        
           | clayloam wrote:
           | I wanted to see if the server could handle being slammed with
           | requests like that :) but yeah collapsing it into one request
           | would be a lot better. I'll probably do that soon
        
             | jart wrote:
             | In case anyone's wondering, I wrote the web server clayloam
             | is using. It's called redbean. It started off as just my
             | own hobby project last year, here on Hacker News, but it
             | grew into something more and lots of people loved it enough
             | to help. So it's very exciting to see it being used in
             | production to handle hundreds of http messages per second.
             | https://redbean.dev
        
           | jart wrote:
           | If you want to monitor how well the server holds up to the
           | hug of death, check out its http://ipv4.games/statusz page.
           | For example, you could poll that and calculate (or chart) how
           | many messages per second it's handling.
        
       | cmeacham98 wrote:
       | Cool idea, but please get an HTTPS cert - they're free!
        
         | clayloam wrote:
         | I was planning on getting that set up, but people discovered it
         | faster than anticipated :) I'll do it soon
        
       | zamadatix wrote:
       | https://youtu.be/bT8CRi9k4bo
        
       | playingalong wrote:
       | 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.
       | 
       | What other options do people have?
        
         | chrismarlow9 wrote:
         | Looks like you can direct link to claim
         | 
         | http://ipv4.games/claim?name=whatever
         | 
         | I expect you could do an img tag or iframe, buy cheap ad
         | traffic, and win. Tor is an option but last time I looked the
         | exit node count is in the thousands. You could probably use any
         | feed submitter or preview functions (Google docs insert URL,
         | Facebook insert URL, etc).
        
         | playingalong wrote:
         | Crowdsourcing - i.e. phishing-like posting of the URL in some
         | social media?
        
       | PaoloBarbolini wrote:
       | This is harder than i thought
        
       | PaoloBarbolini wrote:
       | 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.
        
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