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To choose an ip address from 127.0.0.0/8 subnet randomly in Python 3:

  >>> import ipaddress
  >>> import random
  >>> ipaddress.IPv4Address('127.0.0.1') + random.randrange(2**24 - 2)
  IPv4Address('127.23.181.175')

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Hey, I know I'm a bit late to the party. But I'm looking to protect my company's redis instance from these attacks and your approach looks very promising. Things is, I don't know what to do now that I've written a similar script. Where should I use this code? In the redis.conf file?

Bear in mind, I'm a front end developer, so this is absolutely not my forte. Thanks for the help.

Nice use of __add__ operator over loading here

I really appreciate this code example. I've been using 127.0.0.1 for all my local dev stuff, relying on ports. This is pretty awesome!

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