[121587] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Fri Jan 22 14:47:43 2010
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:47:09 -0800
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@eeph.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100122193630.GA71912@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Reply-To: matthew@eeph.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
From the traffic generated by all the port-scanning and other
similarly-useless packets, one could argue that all of unicast v4 space
is tainted at this point.*
Maybe we should be using that as a reason to switch to v6.
Matthew Kaufman
*If you don't believe me, point a /16 or larger down a fractional T1
line and try to get useful work done over the remaining bandwidth.