[126108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Fri Apr 30 20:46:07 2010
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 10:15:14 +0930
From: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
To: Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <i2i18a5e7cb1004290822z4dda2ac3u20830268f6d4b19@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:22:47 -0700
Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> >> Here's an exercise. =A0Wipe a PC. =A0Put it on that cable modem with n=
o firewall. =A0Install XP on it. =A0See if you can get any service packs in=
stalled before the box is infected.
> > 1. =A0 =A0 =A0Yes, I can. =A0I simply didn't put an IPv4 address on it.=
;-)
> > 2. =A0 =A0 =A0I wouldn't hold XP up as the gold standard of hosts here.
>=20
> One of my coworkers was IPv6ing his home network. He had to turn off
> the Windows firewall on the machine with the IPv6 tunnel for a couple
> of minutes to install some stubborn software. Then he had to reimage
> the box because it was pwned, and he's pretty sure that the infection
> came in over the IPv6 tunnel, not the hardware-firewalled IPv4.
>=20
Your friend should learn about causation verses correlation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation
Every noticed how people who have car accidents got out of bed that
morning?
> --=20
> ----
> Thanks; Bill
>=20
> Note that this isn't my regular email account - It's still experimental s=
o far.
> And Google probably logs and indexes everything you send it.
>=20
