Hello, On 5/15/24 1:28 PM, Edward Shryane via db-wg wrote:
But of course you could also switch IP address and continue to query, it's difficult to prevent this if the queries are anonymous. We account by /32 prefix for an IPv4 address and by /64 prefix for an IPv6 address.
I think this is bad approach. Why on IPv4 you block only single host, but on IPv6 whole subnet? The argument that the source address can be changed is equally valid for IPv4 and IPv6. But in the case of IPv6, you're blocking the entire subnet with multiple stations, even if only one address is problematic. That's real issue I faced past days - my own script on my workstation hit due to programming error AUP limits. As I use IPv6, whole /64 subnet was blocked and not even colleagues in same subnet could use whois at that time. This would'nt happen with IPv4. This is even not good for promoting IPv6, treat IPv6 differently than IPv4 and in a way (rules) that are actually worse for IPv6. Please review this and treat both IPv4 and IPv6 in the same manner. - Daniel