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Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Mon, 10 November 2008 19:04 UTC

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On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Keith Moore wrote:
>
> okay.  I found myself wondering if the change in address space size, and
> in granularity of assignment, might make DNSBLs less reliable.  Which is
> a different kind of scalability.

IPv6's bigger address space affects more security mechanisms than just
DNSBLs, such as defensive port scanning, traffic auditing, etc.

http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-chown-v6ops-port-scanning-implications-02.txt

Tony.
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