Welcome to the IPv4 Games

https://ipv4.games/

55•chillax•6mo ago

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nicman23•6mo ago

femboy.cat with a casual 0.2% of the internet

vaylian•6mo ago

But how do they achieve that? Do you use a lot of VPNs?

maverwa•6mo ago

my first guess would be: server honors X-Forwarded-For where it should not?

Edit: looks like thats it: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/net/turfwar...

So basically someone is running a script iterates over the whole ipv4 range and calls the claim endpoint with each single adress in the X-Forwared-For http header once.

3r7j6qzi9jvnve•6mo ago

That only works if the proxy is sitting on localhost or a local network, just setting the header shouldn't work.

(I came here because I was curious how jart got 127 and 10, but after seeing the source is their's that's less of wonder..)

sgjohnson•6mo ago

bool IsPrivateIp(uint32_t x) {

  return (x >> 24) == 10                   /* 10.0.0.0/8  */

         || (x & 0xfff00000) == 0xac100000 /* 172.16.0.0/12  */

         || (x & 0xffff0000) == 0xc0a80000 /* 192.168.0.0/16  */;

}

the code doesn't consider 127.0.0.0/8 as "private". I'm curious about 10.0.0.0/8 though.*

elitepleb•6mo ago

a simple proof of the opposite is that no one's yet to exploit any of the untaken ranges that way

viraptor•6mo ago

The line just under that prevents public IPs from using that function.

maverwa•6mo ago

you are right, I totally read that wrong. Confirmation bias strikes again!

maldonad0•6mo ago

Maybe spoofing source IPs.

sgjohnson•6mo ago

can't spoof the source IP in TCP communication, as the handshake cannot happen.

With UDP you can send whatever, but obviously you won't be able to receive the response.

Sesse__•6mo ago

It used to be possible back in the days when sequence numbers were easily guessable. (You'd obviously not be able to receive, only send, so you couldn't do TLS, but TLS had hardly been invented at the time.) Now operating systems are way too good for that. :-)

viraptor•6mo ago

There are VPNs which use residential endpoints. You essentially use other users' IPs there.

cedws•6mo ago

Botnet maybe.

sgjohnson•6mo ago

_nobody_ would waste a botnet of 9 million unique IPs like this.

usui•6mo ago

Well let's not get hasty... These are valuable internet points we're talking about here.

nilsherzig•6mo ago

Not if it's your own, but this would be a great opportunity to redirect a botnet hitting your severs to generate some internet points instead

nicman23•6mo ago

it would be pretty funi though

nilsherzig•6mo ago

Embedding images on a popular page?

But according to the servers status at http://35.223.193.241:443/statusz nearly all claim requests expected to get html back not images.

gruez•6mo ago

There's plenty of ways around that, for instance

    <script src="https://ipv4.games/claim?name=gruez">

    <iframe src="https://ipv4.games/claim?name=gruez">

bombcar•6mo ago

They’re top of the list, so at least some is seeing that and choosing to add to it.

adzm•6mo ago

I wouldn't be surprised if they had it call out from guns.lol or something

justusthane•6mo ago

I don't know, but check out the "Recent Successful Claims" on the right.

Edit: Apparently they run https://novo.tf/, a CAPTCHA service, so they're probably using that to call out to ipv4.games from their clients.

mid-kid•6mo ago

By topping the leaderboard plenty of people see it and donate their IP to them. What are you gonna do, claim your own IP for yourself and go up against those behemoths? Of course you're gonna form alliances.

johnisgood•6mo ago

On the website, there was a link to a game: https://www.familiars.io

I spent an hour playing it! It is quite good.

Is there a source code available for this game?

HanClinto•6mo ago

Holy moley, that is some high-octane dopamine right there.

Really fun game, thank you for linking it!

johnisgood•6mo ago

FWIW I asked on their Discord server, and they told me that it is closed source. :(

Does anyone know of a game similar to this with source code available? That would be cool. I have so many ideas that I would like to implement!

snvzz•6mo ago

Somebody is obviously monopolizing ipv4 space.

chrismorgan•6mo ago

(2022)

Also, submission title “Welcome to the IPv4 Games” is altered; the original title is “IPv4 Turf War”.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32790429

redshiftza•6mo ago

Heng Lu at it again it seems.

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