[154862] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sat Jul 14 17:38:05 2012
To: -Hammer- <bhmccie@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:14:45 -0500."
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From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:36:52 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:14:45 -0500, -Hammer- said:
> The whole purpose of this is that they do NOT need to be global.
> Security thru obscurity. It actually has a place in some worlds. Does that
> make sense? Or are such V4-centric approaches a bad thing in v6?
The fact that your prefix is a Secret Sauce that isn't known to the rest of
the world won't matter much to an attacker. One 'ifconfig' on whatever
beachhead machine the attacker has inside your net, and it's not Secret
Sauce anymore, it's just another bottle of Thousand Island dressing...
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