Re: IPv4 v IPv6
On Monday 17 June 2019 10:54:19 am Dan Ritter wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > But that opens yet another container of worms. If I arbitrarily
> > assign ipv6 local addresses, and later, ipv6 shows up at my side of
> > the router, what if I have an address clash with someone on a
> > satellite circuit in Ulan Bator. How is that resolved, by
> > unroutable address blocks such as 192.168.xx.xx is now?
>
> Sort of.
>
> IPv6 has a concept of "scope" that says: this address space is
> purely local. This address space is global. This address space
> is for a link.
>
> If you fire up 'ip -6 address' on a stock Debian machine with
> IPv6 enabled (which is the default these days), you will see
> something like this:
>
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 state UNKNOWN qlen 1
> inet6 ::1/128 scope host
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>
> 3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 state UP qlen
> 1000
> inet6 2001:570:1c07:ff7:d63d:7eff:fe93:e318/64 scope
> global
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> inet6 fe80::a2d3:c1ff:ce24:b122/64 scope link
> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>
> Your loopback interface has one address with scope host: it's only on
> this machine. The eth0 has two addresses: one is scope global,
> and can be used for routing to your machine from the outside
> world, and one is scope link, and should only be used to talk to
> your local network. IPv6 routers should never forward those
> packets.
>
> If you don't get an address block from your ISP, you won't have
> a scope global address.
>
> > What I've read so far has not addressed this serious security
> > concern. Or even mentioned it. If in the future all addressing is
> > by dhcpd6, how do the other machines on my local net, advertise
> > their presence to the other machines on my local net. So I can still
> > ssh -Y vna.coyote.den for instance, if I can ever make ssh work to a
> > win-10-home edition box. Thats a rarely used hookup at best.
> > Presently the hosts file duplicated on all machines fill's this
> > requirement.
>
> Most IPv6 boxes don't use dhcpd6; they use SLAAC: stateless
> automatic address configuration. But you're asking about local
> naming, and that's done the same way on IPv4 and 6: zeroconf,
> aka Rendezvous, Bonjour or Avahi.
>
> Try (installing avahi-utils if needed)_ avahi-browse-domains -a
>
> -dsr-
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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