How are IPs and proxies made?

1. I understand that the ISP is distributing (normally) one IP per customer, but from where are the ISPs getting the IPs to distribute?
2. Are ISPs rotating their IPs through all customers, if so why and how often?
3. Who is controlling and how is IP geolocation controlled (specific subnets for specific countries).
4. How is a proxy made other than me as a normal user running a proxy program on my PC and leaving it on forever, all proxies can't be made this way? Botnets?

1) IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)

2) No way to know this unless you work at an ISP. If they use DHCP, you're more likely to get the same IP.

3) IANA.

4) Proxies can be useful (SOCKS proxies to traverse corporate firewalls, for instance). They can also be misconfigured, letting in others who are not supposed to use them. Also, web servers such as apache can be misconfigured to allow CONNECT requests from places that shouldn't be allowed, so there are many people unwittingly proxying HTTP requests.

One personal example of this was when I installed letsencrypt, the certbot put an apache rewrite rule in my vhost config that turned my machine into a HTTP proxy. I only noticed this because I was watching my logs and noticed proxy traffic when there should have been none. I'm guessing that tens of thousands of other people using the lets encrypt certbot with ubuntu also have the same issue and are unwittingly running a HTTP proxy due to a bad apache rewrite rule.

canonkanon said:

1. I understand that the ISP is distributing (normally) one IP per customer, but from where are the ISPs getting the IPs to distribute?
2. Are ISPs rotating their IPs through all customers, if so why and how often?
3. Who is controlling and how is IP geolocation controlled (specific subnets for specific countries).
4. How is a proxy made other than me as a normal user running a proxy program on my PC and leaving it on forever, all proxies can't be made this way? Botnets?

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kahuna74 said:

1) IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)

2) No way to know this unless you work at an ISP. If they use DHCP, you're more likely to get the same IP.

3) IANA.

4) Proxies can be useful (SOCKS proxies to traverse corporate firewalls, for instance). They can also be misconfigured, letting in others who are not supposed to use them. Also, web servers such as apache can be misconfigured to allow CONNECT requests from places that shouldn't be allowed, so there are many people unwittingly proxying HTTP requests.

One personal example of this was when I installed letsencrypt, the certbot put an apache rewrite rule in my vhost config that turned my machine into a HTTP proxy. I only noticed this because I was watching my logs and noticed proxy traffic when there should have been none. I'm guessing that tens of thousands of other people using the lets encrypt certbot with ubuntu also have the same issue and are unwittingly running a HTTP proxy due to a bad apache rewrite rule.

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What would happen if someone created a rival to the IANA and issued numbers independent from them?

My IP stays the same but why ask here when you have google?

asap1 said:

My IP stays the same but why ask here when you have google?

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You won't find such info on Google mate, these are pretty much underground secrets op is asking for which shouldn't be shared on an open forum. It's like killing the entire "Proxies for sale" section of BHW.

kahuna74 said:

1) IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)

2) No way to know this unless you work at an ISP. If they use DHCP, you're more likely to get the same IP.

3) IANA.

4) Proxies can be useful (SOCKS proxies to traverse corporate firewalls, for instance). They can also be misconfigured, letting in others who are not supposed to use them. Also, web servers such as apache can be misconfigured to allow CONNECT requests from places that shouldn't be allowed, so there are many people unwittingly proxying HTTP requests.

One personal example of this was when I installed letsencrypt, the certbot put an apache rewrite rule in my vhost config that turned my machine into a HTTP proxy. I only noticed this because I was watching my logs and noticed proxy traffic when there should have been none. I'm guessing that tens of thousands of other people using the lets encrypt certbot with ubuntu also have the same issue and are unwittingly running a HTTP proxy due to a bad apache rewrite rule.

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1. HOW are IANA giving IP addresses to the ISPs? How is the authentication working in practice?
2. Wouldn't DHCP mean that I would get a new IP each time I restart my router?
3. How are IP subnets distributed to certain countries, is it based on number of inhabitants or how does it work?
4. How are people getting access to hundreds of thousands of STABLE private proxies?

asap1 said:

My IP stays the same but why ask here when you have google?

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crusher said:

You won't find such info on Google mate, these are pretty much underground secrets op is asking for which shouldn't be shared on an open forum. It's like killing the entire "Proxies for sale" section of BHW.

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Fuck both of you.

Capo Dei Capi said:

What would happen if someone created a rival to the IANA and issued numbers independent from them?

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It will be a LAN then

canonkanon said:

1. HOW are IANA giving IP addresses to the ISPs? How is the authentication working in practice?
2. Wouldn't DHCP mean that I would get a new IP each time I restart my router?
3. How are IP subnets distributed to certain countries, is it based on number of inhabitants or how does it work?
4. How are people getting access to hundreds of thousands of STABLE private proxies?

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1. Most probably one will deal with LIR, not with IANA.
2. DHCP means "ip is defined by server, not by client".
3. How are moneys/resourses distributed to certain countries, is it based on number of inhabitants?
4. You need to own or to rent hundreds of thousands of IPs.

MuayThai said:

It will be a LAN then



1. Most probably one will deal with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Internet_registry, not with IANA.
2. DHCP means "ip is defined by server, not by client".
3. How are moneys/resourses distributed to certain countries, is it based on number of inhabitants?
4. You need to own or to rent hundreds of thousands of IPs.

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1. What stops me from creating my own ISP company and then I request 100k IPs from IANA and resells them as proxies?
3. Hehe, I still don't understand how it works in practice when IANA gives a block of IPs to a LIR. Is it possible for IANA to shut down the whole internet?
4. Where do they rent IPs from? ISPs and web hotels?
5. Is IPv6 going to become mainstream in the near future? If so, with the 57 billion IP addresses available, proxies should drop drastically in price?
6. IPv6 is great for spam, yes?

canonkanon said:

Fuck both of you.

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canonkanon said:

1. What stops me from creating my own ISP company and then I request 100k IPs from IANA and resells them as proxies?
3. Hehe, I still don't understand how it works in practice when IANA gives a block of IPs to a LIR. Is it possible for IANA to shut down the whole internet?
4. Where do they rent IPs from? ISPs and web hotels?
5. Is IPv6 going to become mainstream in the near future? If so, with the 57 billion IP addresses available, proxies should drop drastically in price?
6. IPv6 is great for spam, yes?

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1. Nothing
3. It is complicated for now
4. They... Who?
5. Probably no. There will be no drop, coz proxy price is caused by several factors, like hardware, support, maintenance, etc
6. The same as v4

MuayThai said:

1. Nothing
3. It is complicated for now
4. They... Who?
5. Probably no. There will be no drop, coz proxy price is caused by several factors, like hardware, support, maintenance, etc
6. The same as v4

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1. How is IANA verifying that the LIR is actually a legit company? I probably cannot just send an email to IANA saying that I am starting up a ISP company and I need 100k IPs...
3. Try to explain please
4. They = Proxy providers
5. Isn't the proxy price currently "high" (especially virgin proxies) since all IPv4 addresses has been used / is in use.
6. IPv6 will have billions of virgin IPs available, why would this not reduce the price of virgin proxies?

Regarding to your v4 and v6 comparison , i will give you some insight.
Its like when you compare 32 bit and 64 bit systems. 64 bit system have bigger adress space, and allows you to have much more RAM . Is it enough? You still need to buy RAM and install it , you cant use imaginary number possibilities.
You can ask for 100k IP adresses but you won't get them .

Google terms "Tier1 ISP" to figure out more.

Proxies isn't just owning a bunch of IPs . When you use a proxy , you communicate with distant computer on some server farm or special rack configuration, which then sends your L3 requests further. So when you buy a proxy you don't just "spoof" your IP from your machine, all your internet traffic goes through servers , and paying for proxies is paying those servers and guys who run them.

Fragmaster said:

Regarding to your v4 and v6 comparison , i will give you some insight.
Its like when you compare 32 bit and 64 bit systems. 64 bit system have bigger adress space, and allows you to have much more RAM . Is it enough? You still need to buy RAM and install it , you cant use imaginary number possibilities.
You can ask for 100k IP adresses but you won't get them .

Google terms "Tier1 ISP" to figure out more.

Proxies isn't just owning a bunch of IPs . When you use a proxy , you communicate with distant computer on some server farm or special rack configuration, which then sends your L3 requests further. So when you buy a proxy you don't just "spoof" your IP from your machine, all your internet traffic goes through servers , and paying for proxies is paying those servers and guys who run them.

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Yes, I get this. Either way, since the demand on virgin proxies is higher than the amount of virgin proxies that exist then shouldn't it mean that IPv6 is supplying billions of virgin proxies and therefore the price of private proxies should drop?

I suggest you to watch https://www.udacity.com/course/networking-for-web-developers--ud256 this course. It's a short one but an interesting one. If you only want to know about IPs then watch only "Addressing and Networking" section.

Sounds like you need a 3rd year university networking class. Kick through the slides here: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ahchinaei/teaching/2016jan/csc358/

For the part about IPv4 vs IPv6...

2^8 * 2^8 * 2^8 * 2^8 is how many IPv4 address there are. We are running out, so now we have IPv6.

2^8 * 2^8 * 2^8 * 2^8 * 2^8 * 2^8

As much as I understand, top tier ISPs gets IP address range to distribute from a central control. DHCP makes new ips inside a local network, they wont work on internet.

IP addresses are given out by (I think) several central bodies - for example Arin (https://www.arin.net/) provides IP addresses for Central America, Canada etc.

These are given out in large blocks mostly to ISPs, hosting providers and other big organisations. They could be like /4 and /8 sub nets and so on that have lots of networks and IPs within them.

These would then be split up in to smaller networks and assigned out as required.

An ISP for example with have a big subnet to assign out to its customers.

Then you get private IP addresses of course that can be used internally - like on your home network, and your router would provide NAT services to translate your private IP to a public IP so you can communicate over the Internet, and vice versa.

There is a very short supply of IPv4 addresses now so it's quite hard to get them in large numbers without a legitimate reason.

Proxies are based on the same thing - it's just a server using these IP addresses and routing traffic through them.

If you want more detail just ask.

In my dad data center ripe own his ip address you have to rent the ips in a amount and that amount is what they give you

256
512
1024
2064
4028

The price is dependent on the hardwere and what your worth as a business ,ripe dont allow any business under a 250.000 income even get a batch of ip's , and you have to be a registred internet business , you also need to prove your income , and a business plan for each ip address , and also have 1 years in front payment , Ip address are not cheap and are provided of proof of use.....

The same as the line that connects to the ip address you have to also rent and that also done in bandwidth and is also rented to my dad via the data center and you get it in per giga bit.

My dad got a 64 giga bit line and very exspensive hanging of 4028 ip addresss .

All in a data center level 3 in the city of london

My dad provides dsl lines for private penthouse homes all wireless via satalite communication ,

he use to do it via telephone lines , and setup the wires thu lifts , but that old hat it all wireless know and satalite dish thank f*****

The datacenter provides the space for his servers and also they provide the bandwidth and a secure lockup they also provide fridge coldness 24/7 it cost more then 4 thousand per month , that the whole setup not including server hardwere and ip address .

Like i say you have to have real money to be in the internet world.

My dad only a little business in level 3 my father only got 42 severs at present but others have hundreds in cages .

A mcse engineer or a cisco engineer get around £250 per day working at level 3 but only if your good at bash commands and you no your stuff for real.

I have seen for my own eyes, mcse wanna be faint when they just fucked a 300.000 business up , just doing sonethink stupid in the data center ,

so if you think a learn your self in 24 hr book really get you a heigh paid job , think agin lol lol
Or using cram books or programs really help you think agin...

I have piggi backed of dads line all 64giga bites and download a 2 hour film in 6 sec lol lol

My father 73 years old and can still run a under million pound business and still install and make servers and instal services for the rich
Not a lot of people can say that , good old dad

canonkanon said:

Yes, I get this. Either way, since the demand on virgin proxies is higher than the amount of virgin proxies that exist then shouldn't it mean that IPv6 is supplying billions of virgin proxies and therefore the price of private proxies should drop?

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Virgin proxy is a salesman term. It has nothing to do with any technical stuff. It's merchants way to persuade layman that virgin IP > used IP, to avoid talking about server bandwidth, uptime, response, support . All that matter is if proxy is elite / anonymous or not, is it shared or dedicated, how many people you share with , and if they are abusing them or if IP is blacklisted. Instead of thinking about virgin or not , you should think blacklisted or not .