[101115] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue Dec 18 06:44:36 2007
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:47:14 +0900
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>,
Sean Siler <Sean.Siler@microsoft.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1B09094E-3472-4E79-B855-8AD7558E7B91@muada.com>
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> I'd say that the huge address space makes life impossible for scanning
> worms.
The advent of P2P has made "Valid node discovery" easier than just scanning.
Damned technology and its incremental improvements. :)
> That doesn't mean that there can be no successful scanning at all with
> IPv6, but it needs to be highly targeted if you want results the same
> year, so just pumping random numbers in the destination address field
> like SQL slammer did so successfully doesn't cut it in IPv6.
So maybe said scanning won't take down LANs anymore.
Adrian
