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Re: [Asrg] IPv6 and the SPAM problem

2005-01-17 07:19:16
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Tony Finch wrote:
| Seth Breidbart <sethb(_at_)panix(_dot_)com> wrote:

|>It gets much harder to scan IP space for zombiable machines when that
|>space is 128 bits wide than when it's 32 bits wide.

| People who run botnets don't have to scan for zombies. They identify
| themselves by joining IRC channels. If anything, the larger address
| space of IPv6 will make things worse.

Zombiable != "Zombied".  Seth should really have said "scan for
[compromisable|insecure|open proxy|open relay et. al.] machines".

Minor nit: these days a lot of zombies self-announce using something
other than IRC on standard ports.  HTTP on port 80.  Etc.
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