Netflix banning HE tunnels

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Mon Jun 13 01:46:45 UTC 2016


In message <CAPkb-7AMjiVPqTSmTvk7Wa0NW3WysOPhxPyEGhTJ+8O54=UEzw at mail.gmail.com>, Baldur Norddahl writes:
> On 13 June 2016 at 02:05, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2.      Consistent and easier comparisons for equality or ranges
> >                 In iPv4, this was useful. In IPv6, it=E2=80=99s essential=
> .
> >
> 
> 
> You could also normalize your IPv6 text representation. There is even RFC
> 5952 for that. Abbreviated the rule is:
> 
> 1) lower case
> 2) as short as possible, except do not shorten just one :0: into ::.
> 3) if there is more than one possible :: block that results in the same
> shortest length, choose the first block as ::.
> 
> I am not quite sure why they put in the exception not to shorten one zero,
> but otherwise this is what most people would naturally come up with.

Those rules are good for equality but not much more.

> Also, technically there is more than one IPv4 representation too. I have in
> the past poked security holes through this as most people forget (or don't
> know):

As Owen mentioned.

> Baldurs-MacBook-Pro-2:~ baldur$ ping -c1 100000000
> PING 100000000 (5.245.225.0): 56 data bytes
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Baldur
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