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Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space
From: valdis.kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:36:52 -0400
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:14:45 -0500, -Hammer- said:
The whole purpose of this is that they do NOT need to be global. Security thru obscurity. It actually has a place in some worlds. Does that make sense? Or are such V4-centric approaches a bad thing in v6?
The fact that your prefix is a Secret Sauce that isn't known to the rest of the world won't matter much to an attacker. One 'ifconfig' on whatever beachhead machine the attacker has inside your net, and it's not Secret Sauce anymore, it's just another bottle of Thousand Island dressing...
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- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Matt Addison (Jul 17)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Doug Barton (Jul 17)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Owen DeLong (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Oliver (Jul 17)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Jimmy Hess (Jul 16)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space -Hammer- (Jul 17)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Saku Ytti (Jul 17)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space -Hammer- (Jul 17)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Doug Barton (Jul 17)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Ray Soucy (Jul 17)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space valdis . kletnieks (Jul 14)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Randy Bush (Jul 14)
- RE: using "reserved" IPv6 space Tony Hain (Jul 14)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Randy Bush (Jul 14)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Grzegorz Janoszka (Jul 15)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Scott Morris (Jul 15)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Cameron Byrne (Jul 15)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Grzegorz Janoszka (Jul 15)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Mike Jones (Jul 15)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Owen DeLong (Jul 15)
- Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space Scott Morris (Jul 15)