Stop IPv6 Google traffic

Ricky Beam jfbeam at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 21:26:20 UTC 2016


On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:03:02 -0400, Rubens Kuhl <rubensk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If that were the case, they'd be seeing the same via IPv4. And  
>> apparently,
>> they aren't.
>>
>
> Nope. If you have both A and AAAA IP addresses in DNS responses and have
> both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, IPv6 will be preferred, with even a bit

You misunderstood. If they disable IPv6, then their "attacks" would  
continue via IPv4, thus getting IPv4 similarly blacklisted. This is not  
happening -- hence the plan of blocking IPv6.

While it's possible there's some IPv6 specific "spambot" (adbot, whatever)  
running, I doubt it.



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