On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:49:07PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > My question, though, is this: Would it not be possible to find out all > the local nodes by pinging ff02::1? That'd make it a lot easier to find > likely targets without having to make random guesses. > Sure but that is strictly link local... It would not give back any results except machines on that physical layer... If it's a connection between you and your provider that means at best prolly 2 hosts will be returned... Your's and their's... Also you have to remember there is nothing that dictates that IPv6 addresses have to use EUI-64 format using the MAC address... You can still number them randomly and hap-hazardly... While it just obfuscates the issue it does make the ability to probe much harder... Jeremy
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