Hello,
Just curious if this is a bug or not. I guess I don't enough about how IP addresses are assigned to servers. I rent a VPS from GoDaddy and currently, I'm allowed 3 IPv4 addresses. They assign them to me. Right now, I'm using two. If I want another free one, I just click a button and I receive it. To my knowledge, I don't have any control over what IP address I receive.
How does this work? How does GoDaddy get these IP addresses? I understand they probably have something like a Class A network, but where do they get it from? Their ISP? And where does they're ISP get it from? I mean, I don't really want to know what company, I'm just asking if there's some main organization that hands out IP addresses to various people.
The reason I ask, I want an IPv6 address. I was messing around in cPanel, and I went to where I could add an IPv6 range. I pinged google from my LAN and saw what their IPv6 address was. I entered something very similar for a range....and this is where it gets weird, it actually worked. I was able to ping my domain using an IPv6 version of ping, and my domain responded with the IPv6 address I assigned to it, even though no one assigned me one. What's preventing me from just stealing someone else's IPv6 address? I would imagine I shouldn't be able to do this, that something's wrong somewheres. Shouldn't there be some sort of check or something that only lets me assign IPv6 addresses that have been assigned to me?
Thanks and sorry if this is a dumb question.
Just curious if this is a bug or not. I guess I don't enough about how IP addresses are assigned to servers. I rent a VPS from GoDaddy and currently, I'm allowed 3 IPv4 addresses. They assign them to me. Right now, I'm using two. If I want another free one, I just click a button and I receive it. To my knowledge, I don't have any control over what IP address I receive.
How does this work? How does GoDaddy get these IP addresses? I understand they probably have something like a Class A network, but where do they get it from? Their ISP? And where does they're ISP get it from? I mean, I don't really want to know what company, I'm just asking if there's some main organization that hands out IP addresses to various people.
The reason I ask, I want an IPv6 address. I was messing around in cPanel, and I went to where I could add an IPv6 range. I pinged google from my LAN and saw what their IPv6 address was. I entered something very similar for a range....and this is where it gets weird, it actually worked. I was able to ping my domain using an IPv6 version of ping, and my domain responded with the IPv6 address I assigned to it, even though no one assigned me one. What's preventing me from just stealing someone else's IPv6 address? I would imagine I shouldn't be able to do this, that something's wrong somewheres. Shouldn't there be some sort of check or something that only lets me assign IPv6 addresses that have been assigned to me?
Thanks and sorry if this is a dumb question.