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Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?


From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew () matthew at>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:59:12 -0700

James Hess wrote:


Fortunately, the IPv6  address space is so large and sparse, that
scanning it would be quite a feat,  even if a random outside attacker
already knew   for a fact  that a certain /64  probably contains a
vulnerable host.
All I need to do is run a popular web site on the IPv6 Internet, and I get all the addresses of connected hosts I want. That address-space-scanning is hard is nearly irrelevant.

Matthew Kaufman


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