[82847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco IPv6 Exploit, was Re: 6to4 routes disappeared from most
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Fri Jul 29 23:20:50 2005
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:20:00 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: John Neiberger <jneiberger@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <547ad0fe0507291524321af4ea@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, John Neiberger wrote:
> Someone on another list was wondering if this IPv6 exploit might have
> something to do with the NANOG thread from a few days ago titled "6to4
> routes disappeared from most of North America".
>
> http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg09747.html
>
> Is there any reason to think that these might be related, or do we
> already know for certain that they're completely unrelated?
I started the 6to4 thread, so....
I personally doubt they're related. I noticed the lack of 6to4 connectivity
a couple months ago, and though it to be transient; it appears instead to be
an artifact of laziness on the part of v6 network carriers.
But, since I love to feed the conspiracy nuts anyway: Maybe the Tier-1s
were afraid that the malformed-v6 exploit could somehow be triggered by 6to4
injection and wanted to isolate the v6 network more from the more hostile v4
world.
Naaaaaah. My money's on laziness; it's usually the case. 8-)
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
