On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:12 AM, Fernando Gont wrote:

> Also, the claim that "IPv6 address scanning is impossible" is generally based 
> on the (incorrect) assumption that host addresses are spread
> (randomly) over the 64-bit IID. -- But they usually aren't.

It also doesn't take into account hinted scanning via routing table lookups, 
whois lookups, and walking reverse DNS, not to mention making use of ND 
mechanisms once a single box on a given subnet has been successfully botted.

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