[171445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Apr 30 01:13:27 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <53606603.1070004@utc.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 22:13:34 -0700
To: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Apr 29, 2014, at 7:54 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu> wrote:
> On 4/29/2014 2:06 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> If everyone who had 30+ inaggregable IPv4 prefixes replaced them with =
1 (or even 3) IPv6 prefixes=85
>>=20
>> As a bonus, we could get rid of NAT, too. ;-)
>>=20
>> /me ducks (but you know I had to say it)
>=20
> Yeah, just when we thought Slammer / Blaster / Nachi / Welchia / etc /
> etc had been eliminated by process of "can't get there from here"... =
we
> expose millions more endpoints...
>=20
> /me ducks too (but you know *I* had to say it)
Pretending that endpoints are not exposed to those things with NAT is =
kind of like putting a screen door in front of a bank vault and saying =
=93now safe from tornadoes=94.
Owen
