And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

Per Heldal heldal at eml.cc
Mon Oct 17 18:53:26 UTC 2005


man, 17,.10.2005 kl. 19.16 +0200, skrev Peter Dambier:
> That reminds me of anycasting or routing issues.
> 
> Hackers did use this technique to make use of ip addresses not
> really allocated. There would be no need for IPv6 if this was
> more widespread.
> 
> How about claiming to be f.root-servers.net and setting up our
> own root :)

Yeah, you'd love that, wouldn't you? ;)

Trust that security considerations would be an important part of the
design of any replacement for current routing protocols.

//Per





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