Maybe a different take, but as someone that manages a large public API that allows anonymous access, IPv6 has been a nightmare to try and...
Maybe a different take, but as someone that manages a large public API that allows anonymous access, IPv6 has been a nightmare to try and enforce rate limits on. We've found different ISPs assign IPv6 addresses differently - some give a /64 to every server, some give /64 to an entire data center. It seems there is no standard and everyone just makes up what they think will work. This puts us in an awkward place where we need abuse protections, but have to invest into more complicated solutions that were needed for IPv4. Or we give up and just say if you want to use IPv6, you have to authenticate. Does anyone have any success stories from the server side handling a situation like this? Looks like cloudflare switched to some kind of custom dynamic rate limiting based on like addresses, but it's unrealistic to expect everyone to be able to do such a thing.
Posted by mmbleh on Jan 2, 2026, 11:18 PM
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Legit what one of our clients problem was.
sounds painful, just searched on "how can i get ms office running in linux using wine" and the results included a containerised windows v...
Appreciate MCP server availability, will help integrate with Claude.
Maybe a different take, but as someone that manages a large public API that allows anonymous access, IPv6 has been a nightmare to try and...
Why is there no write through unionfs in Linux?
> why is there no in-memory kafka server that I can use for simple testing purposes https://github.com/embeddedkafka/...
> why is there no in-memory kafka server that I can use for simple testing purposes.
I went from daily driving mac and being very used to the desktop environment, and i am really hating everything i've tried in Linux.
Maybe a different take, but as someone that manages a large public API that allows anonymous access, IPv6 has been a nightmare to try and...
Maybe a different take, but as someone that manages a large public API that allows anonymous access, IPv6 has been a nightmare to try and enforce rate limits on. We've found different ISPs assign IPv6 addresses differently - some give a /64 to every server, some give /64 to an entire data center. It seems there is no standard and everyone just makes up what they think will work. This puts us in an awkward place where we need abuse protections, but have to invest into more complicated solutions that were needed for IPv4. Or we give up and just say if you want to use IPv6, you have to authenticate. Does anyone have any success stories from the server side handling a situation like this? Looks like cloudflare switched to some kind of custom dynamic rate limiting based on like addresses, but it's unrealistic to expect everyone to be able to do such a thing.
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