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One person was able to claim 20M IPs, or 9% of all IPv4 hosts

created: Aug. 16, 2025, 5:57 p.m. | updated: Aug. 16, 2025, 9:39 p.m.

I operate an online service at https://ipv4.games/ that invites people to send http requests to my web server from a lot of different IP addresses. In order to claim an IP, you need to successfully make a tcp three-way handshake with a VM on Google's network. Somehow a player in Europe named femboy.cat has successfully managed to claim 20 million IPs, which is 9% of all IPv4 hosts according to Censys. Does anyone have any idea how they're doing it? Would anyone here be willing to be their North American rival?

13 hours, 10 minutes ago: Hacker News