Any experienced mixing engineer should be able to tell. Here is your flea whisperer.
If the shoe fits... turn everyone in a 500ft radius into Hulk.
Da fuq?
So one arm of Google is making the slop and the other is trying to avoid it? Neat.
My general attitude is similar to yours. Let OP figure out that the reporting and blocking is basically just creating more noise that has to gets filtered out and bot supply is basically infinite.
"It's a learning experience."
I also don't think it's morally right to isolate a single nation, since they were all a single country
They were all Russian, so fuck 'em? That statement is confusing, to say the least.
Good luck with that, I suppose. Botnets can have thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of infected hosts that will endlessly scan everything on the interwebs. Many of those infected hosts are behind NAT's and your abuse form would be the equivalent of reporting an entire region for a single scan.
But hey! Change the world, amirite?
That comment is pure gold and I am archiving it for future use.
I don't want to go so far as to tell you how to think, but as long as we are talking about how to visualize IP addresses, you may want to check out subnets and subnet masking.
The notation of IP addresses starts to make sense when you think about the early days of TCP/IP when all IP addresses were public and NAT'ing wasn't really required yet. Basically, there needed to be ways for networks to filter traffic by IP blocks that were applicable. (It was [in part] a precursor to collision avoidance, but absolutely not the full story.) We still use addressing and masking today, but it's more obvious when it's local. (Like in data centers, where it's super practical to mask off a block of addresses for a row or rack of servers.)
To your point, yeah. IP addresses are probably more comparable to the Dewey Decimal System rather than actual numbers and thinking of them as strings is probably easier.
255
Small correction, but an important one: 0 is a number too.
In terms of IP masking and broadcast addresses, the max is 255.255.255.255
I love me some good old fashioned verification, so thanks for falling on that sword for us. (No way in hell am I clicking through to that shit hole though.)
Edit: I misread the URL and it's an archive site, not TS.