From: Adrian Chadd (no email)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2007 - 06:47:14 EST
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> I'd say that the huge address space makes life impossible for scanning
> worms.
The advent of P2P has made "Valid node discovery" easier than just scanning.
Damned technology and its incremental improvements. :)
> That doesn't mean that there can be no successful scanning at all with
> IPv6, but it needs to be highly targeted if you want results the same
> year, so just pumping random numbers in the destination address field
> like SQL slammer did so successfully doesn't cut it in IPv6.
So maybe said scanning won't take down LANs anymore.
Adrian
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