AWS and IPv6

Tom Hill tom at ninjabadger.net
Tue Dec 14 12:57:35 UTC 2021


On 29/11/2021 02:23, William Herrin wrote:
> This technique does in fact work for IPv6, allowing you to insert a
> firewall at the edge. Interestingly though, it won't receive IPv6
> packets for an address that isn't attached to a running instance in
> the interior subnet.

That sounds remarkably sensible given that the AWS customer base will be
dipping their toes into the world of IPv6 very cautiously.

(No good for a honeypot, but we have many other means for that.)

-- 
Tom


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