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IETF RFC 7707
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Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks

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IETF
Doc Type
Informational
Pages
38
Abstract
IPv6 offers a much larger address space than that of its IPv4 counterpart. An IPv6 subnet of size /64 can (in theory) accommodate approximately 1.844 * 10^19 hosts, thus resulting in a much lower host density (#hosts/#addresses) than is typical in IPv4 networks, where a site typically has 65,000 or fewer unique addresses. As a result, it is widely assumed that it would take a tremendous effort to perform address-scanning attacks against IPv6 networks; therefore, IPv6 address-scanning attacks have been considered unfeasible. This document formally obsoletes RFC 5157, which first discussed this assumption, by providing further analysis on how traditional address-scanning techniques apply to IPv6 networks and exploring some additional techniques that can be employed for IPv6 network reconnaissance.
Publication Date
2016-03-01
Status Note
Informational
DOI
10.17487/RFC7707
Link
https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7707
Author(s)
Fernando Gont
Tim Chown
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