[GLLUG] Speculative IPv6 probing

[John Winters]

On 25/09/2019 18:44, Tim Woodall via GLLUG wrote:
> I'm seeing probes obviously attempting to hunt for machines on IPv6.

I can't help wondering what the objective is.

Scanning the whole of the IPv6 address space is going to take a while, 
and all it's going to tell you is that there is a machine at a 
particular address - just the same as if you did it for IPv4.

What's there to be gained?

John

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