IPv6 uptake (was: The Reg does 240/4)

Sat Feb 17 01:33:54 UTC 2024

On 2/16/24 5:30 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 5:22 PM Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:
>> On 2/16/24 5:05 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>>> Now, I make a mistake on my firewall. I insert a rule intended to
>>> allow packets outbound from 2602:815:6001::4 but I fat-finger it and
>>> so it allows them inbound to that address instead. Someone tries to
>>> telnet to 2602:815:6001::4. What happens? Hacked.
>> Yes, but if the DHCP database has a mistake it's pretty much the same
>> situation since it could be numbered with a public address.
> Um. No. You'd have to make multiple mistakes cross-contaminating your
> public and private ethernet segments yet somehow without completely
> breaking your network rendering it inoperable.

So you're not going to address that this is a management plain problem. ok.

Mike