On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

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hostroute == /64

(and just think of all that spam than can originate from all those "loose" IP addresses in that /64 for your local SMTP server!!! Yummy)

-- Oat Willie

ok... so is it -just- me that gets the willies thinking of the 2x64-1 available IPv6 addresses that can be forged as source addresses for spam origination? i REALLY want to have a tidy

but, but, but... ipv6 is more SECURE! :) I'm really not sure I understand why my LAN has to have more available ip space than the current Internet, but boy, it sure makes it easy to spam^H^H^H^Hfind available addresses! I view the 48/56/64 boundaries about like Woody does (and I suspect Mr. Narkins and Mr. Bush) they are in the documentation so people use them, it's not particularly a great idea, but it is an idea. (Oh, and some equipment won't do the lovely autoconfig unless you have a /64, someone should open a bug report on that)