top | item 16548936 (no title) click170 | 8 years ago Not if I can spoof my IP6 address as easily as I can spoof an IP4 one, nope. discuss order hn newest Buge|8 years ago One thing about IPv6 is that you cannot scan the entire address range looking for open (memcached or other) servers like you can with IPv4. lathiat|8 years ago Turns out that is not as true as you would think in practice.. you can reduce the search space significantly because of known IPv6 prefixes, EUI-64, a MAC address database and trying a few additional likely addresses such as ::1 ::fffe etcNot sure what the original source I read on it was, but you can try this: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2015/02/ipv6-security-m... cm2187|8 years ago But servers will almost certainly have a DNS entry. So they aren't really hidden in the immensity of the address space. load replies (1)
Buge|8 years ago One thing about IPv6 is that you cannot scan the entire address range looking for open (memcached or other) servers like you can with IPv4. lathiat|8 years ago Turns out that is not as true as you would think in practice.. you can reduce the search space significantly because of known IPv6 prefixes, EUI-64, a MAC address database and trying a few additional likely addresses such as ::1 ::fffe etcNot sure what the original source I read on it was, but you can try this: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2015/02/ipv6-security-m... cm2187|8 years ago But servers will almost certainly have a DNS entry. So they aren't really hidden in the immensity of the address space. load replies (1)
lathiat|8 years ago Turns out that is not as true as you would think in practice.. you can reduce the search space significantly because of known IPv6 prefixes, EUI-64, a MAC address database and trying a few additional likely addresses such as ::1 ::fffe etcNot sure what the original source I read on it was, but you can try this: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2015/02/ipv6-security-m...
cm2187|8 years ago But servers will almost certainly have a DNS entry. So they aren't really hidden in the immensity of the address space. load replies (1)
Buge|8 years ago
lathiat|8 years ago
Not sure what the original source I read on it was, but you can try this: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2015/02/ipv6-security-m...
cm2187|8 years ago