[85796] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Per Heldal)
Mon Oct 17 14:54:00 2005
From: Per Heldal <heldal@eml.cc>
To: peter@peter-dambier.de
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4353DC72.8020409@peter-dambier.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:53:26 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
man, 17,.10.2005 kl. 19.16 +0200, skrev Peter Dambier:
> That reminds me of anycasting or routing issues.
>
> Hackers did use this technique to make use of ip addresses not
> really allocated. There would be no need for IPv6 if this was
> more widespread.
>
> How about claiming to be f.root-servers.net and setting up our
> own root :)
Yeah, you'd love that, wouldn't you? ;)
Trust that security considerations would be an important part of the
design of any replacement for current routing protocols.
//Per
