Is this actually a serious alternative to migrating to IPv6?
Adrian
Dotbombs are, if they occur.
Not that you can bank on them to occur .. though given silly valley,
they just might occur.
If they do occur, and if the RIRs are on the ball about reclaiming IP space ...
Lots of ifs.
Happy after-Thanksgiving to the USAians still digesting turkey. Indeed, I
can give thanks to the NANOG community for existing; I've gained a great
deal from it and want to keep giving back.
I'm writing a Wikipedia article on the overall topic of swarming, which, of
course, included DDoS. Unfortunately, I can't remember the title or author
of a presentation that either was at NANOG or a Cisco security event.
Precise, huh? :-<
Anyway, I'm hoping someone will remember it and can give a URL. It was from
a network security group at a European physics lab, had very good economic
analysis, and one of its more powerful example is that an oscilloscope
running Windows -- which no one thought of in applying security patches --
was the place the malware hid while the security admins were scrubbing every
obvious computer.
Anyone happen to know where I can find it?
We have a load of test kit here running Windows, it frightens me as it
gets moved from lab to lab office to office and nobody runs anything on
it to keep in check.
It's a sad sad world when you need anti virus software on your lab test kit!
I mean really, how screwed up is it to run Windows on a spectrum
analyser and then leave everything open, on SP1 with no firewall and no
patches and then go plugging it into peoples networks.
I believe a local university physics department had a STM (microscope)
running Windows 95 or Windows 98 + embedded stuff. The drivers broke whenever
you tried patching it away from the shipped software version.
The academics demanded that the device be accessible from everywhere so they
could drag/drop data files to/from other universities on the thing. With a
public IP address.
Adrian
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Great. So half the world's population is dead, lots of dotbombs are
out of business .. but you have LOTS of IP space that's suddenly
unused and available.Is this actually a serious alternative to migrating to IPv6?
Dotbombs are, if they occur.
Except of course that the companies that are presently soaking up large
amounts of address space have actually customers, who pay for the most
part, so even a bankruptcy that address space is going someplace (think
psinet genuity etc).
Not that you can bank on them to occur .. though given silly valley,
they just might occur.If they do occur, and if the RIRs are on the ball about reclaiming IP space ...
I expect that legacy holders will be entombed in their pyramids with v4
space just-in-case they have use for it in the afterlife.
Just a more likely one.