On Tue, Dec 18, 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > I'd say that the huge address space makes life impossible for scanning > worms.
The advent of P2P has made "Valid node discovery" easier than just scanning. Damned technology and its incremental improvements. :) > That doesn't mean that there can be no successful scanning at all with > IPv6, but it needs to be highly targeted if you want results the same > year, so just pumping random numbers in the destination address field > like SQL slammer did so successfully doesn't cut it in IPv6. So maybe said scanning won't take down LANs anymore. Adrian
