[188663] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stop IPv6 Google traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Mon Apr 11 17:26:24 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: "Rubens Kuhl" <rubensk@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:26:20 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGFn2k2uX+9szrBwnoNiocjG3d8S8dgrfgZFqTC1G=gDAnvWxA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:03:02 -0400, Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> If that were the case, they'd be seeing the same via IPv4. And
>> apparently,
>> they aren't.
>>
>
> Nope. If you have both A and AAAA IP addresses in DNS responses and have
> both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, IPv6 will be preferred, with even a bit
You misunderstood. If they disable IPv6, then their "attacks" would
continue via IPv4, thus getting IPv4 similarly blacklisted. This is not
happening -- hence the plan of blocking IPv6.
While it's possible there's some IPv6 specific "spambot" (adbot, whatever)
running, I doubt it.
