Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Apr 29, 2014, at 7:54 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell () utc edu> wrote:

> On 4/29/2014 2:06 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > If everyone who had 30+ inaggregable IPv4 prefixes replaced them with 1 (or even 3) IPv6 prefixes…
> >
> > As a bonus, we could get rid of NAT, too. ;-)
> >
> > /me ducks (but you know I had to say it)
>
> Yeah, just when we thought Slammer / Blaster / Nachi / Welchia / etc /
> etc  had been eliminated by process of "can't get there from here"... we
> expose millions more endpoints...
>
> /me ducks too (but you know *I* had to say it)

Pretending that endpoints are not exposed to those things with NAT is kind of like putting a screen door in front of a 
bank vault and saying “now safe from tornadoes”.

Owen