Re: just seen my first IPv6 network abuse scan, is this the start for more?

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

On 9/3/2010 17:12, Owen DeLong wrote:
> I was not attempting to defend security through obscurity. It doesn't ultimately help at all.
>
> However, compared to the network and other resource costs of scanning, even at more than a billion pps, I think there 
> will be more effective vectors of attack that are more likely to be used in IPv6. In IPv4, an exhaustive scan is 
> quite feasible. In IPv6, scanning a single subnet is 4 billion times harder than scanning the entire IPv4 Internet.
>
> My point isn't that hiding hosts in arbitrarily large address space makes them safe. My point is that scanning is not 
> the vector by which they are most likely to get discovered.

Even so, it won't stop the uninitiated from scanning the crap out of
IPv6 space.

~Seth