On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, John Neiberger wrote:

Someone on another list was wondering if this IPv6 exploit might have something to do with the NANOG thread from a few days ago titled "6to4 routes disappeared from most of North America".

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg09747.html

Is there any reason to think that these might be related, or do we already know for certain that they're completely unrelated?

I started the 6to4 thread, so.... I personally doubt they're related. I noticed the lack of 6to4 connectivity a couple months ago, and though it to be transient; it appears instead to be an artifact of laziness on the part of v6 network carriers. But, since I love to feed the conspiracy nuts anyway: Maybe the Tier-1s were afraid that the malformed-v6 exploit could somehow be triggered by 6to4 injection and wanted to isolate the v6 network more from the more hostile v4 world. Naaaaaah. My money's on laziness; it's usually the case. 8-) -- -- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>