[99328] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Mon Sep 17 23:16:29 2007
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:15:31 -0400
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>
To: "Barrett Lyon" <blyon@blyon.com>
Cc: "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <28060692-02FF-456B-AEFB-D142B4488C75@blyon.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 9/17/07, Barrett Lyon <blyon@blyon.com> wrote:
> On a totally unrelated note: Not to make any accusation on the
> security of the end-point tunnel network what-so-ever, but an
> entirely other issue is the tiny bit of a security conundrum that
> default tunnels create -- tunneling traffic to another network
> without notifying the user seems dangerous. If I were a tinfoil-hat
> security person (or a CSO of a bank for example) this would really
> freak me out.
I wonder how setting Internet policy by putting defaults on become part of the
regular operational internet? We're seeing a lot of this with v6 and I
can't figure out how this is being driven.
Best,
Marty
