We hit half-million: The Cidr Report
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Wed Apr 30 05:13:34 UTC 2014
On Apr 29, 2014, at 7:54 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell at utc.edu> wrote:
> On 4/29/2014 2:06 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> If everyone who had 30+ inaggregable IPv4 prefixes replaced them with 1 (or even 3) IPv6 prefixes…
>>
>> As a bonus, we could get rid of NAT, too. ;-)
>>
>> /me ducks (but you know I had to say it)
>
> Yeah, just when we thought Slammer / Blaster / Nachi / Welchia / etc /
> etc had been eliminated by process of "can't get there from here"... we
> expose millions more endpoints...
>
> /me ducks too (but you know *I* had to say it)
Pretending that endpoints are not exposed to those things with NAT is kind of like putting a screen door in front of a bank vault and saying “now safe from tornadoes”.
Owen
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