Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:44:03 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> Cc: Vadim Goncharov <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru>, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it Message-ID: <87800D7B-3866-4FC0-B757-BF2AB808920E@ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200803052231.m25MVl0p066992@drugs.dv.isc.org> References: <200803052231.m25MVl0p066992@drugs.dv.isc.org>
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On Mar 5, 2008, at 17:31 , Mark Andrews wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:00:29PM +0000, Vadim Goncharov wrote: >>> * The last I read about IPv6 in mainstream news, there were major >> concerns cited over some of the security aspects of the protocol. I >> also remember reading somewhere that IPv6 was supposed to address >> issues >> like packet spoofing and DoS -- what became of this? > > Someone was feeding you a load of horse @$$!. When Marcus Ranum is one of those questioning its security, I'm inclined to believe him. (Google "mjr ipv6 security" --- his point in a nutshell is that we're going to be fixing old IPv4 holes in new guises for a while.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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