nanog mailing list archives

Re: IPv6 Unique Local Addresses (was Re: New Active Exploit: memcached on port 11211 UDP & TCP being exploited for reflection attacks)


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 14:28:21 -0800


On Mar 1, 2018, at 1:20 PM, Harald Koch <chk () pobox com> wrote:

On 1 March 2018 at 15:18, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com <mailto:owen () delong com>> wrote:
Second, RFC-1918 doesn’t apply to IPv6 at all, and (fortunately) hardly anyone
uses ULA (the IPv6 analogue to RFC-1918).

Wait. What's the objection to ULA? Is it just that NAT is bad, or is there something new?

No particular objection, but I don’t see the point.

What can you do with ULA that GUA isn’t suitable for?

Owen


Current thread: