Collaborate Disseminate
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls talk with David Taht about the state of the Internet and, specifically, IPv4 exhaustion. We’re running out of IPv4 addresses! But we’ve been …read more Continue reading FLOSS Weekly Episode 769: 10% More Internet
I am switching to nftables and converted my old iptables rules. I would like to support IPv6 too.
I have several rules that I have added over the years from reading tutorials about security.
Several of them I either forgot or I am not sur… Continue reading Do I need to change my nftables firewall rules?
Some sites such as Talos, Abuse and the aggregator FireHOL provide the community with some lists of rogue and malicious IPv4 addresses and subnets.
Could anyone share some similar freely available URLs regarding IPv6 ranges?
I’m aware of t… Continue reading IPv6 blocklists [closed]
Today, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Do Attackers Pay More Attention to IPv6?“: IPv6 has always been a hot topic! Available for years, many ISP’s deployed IPv6 up to their residential customers. In Belgium, we were for a long time, the top-one country with IPv6 deployment because all
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Have you ever noticed that some websites can figure out, at least roughly, where you are? Sometimes they use it to find you a closer content provider. Or they might …read more Continue reading Where Exactly Did That Network Packet Come From?
I’m experiencing an issue with Windows 10 where IPv6 connectivity becomes unstable over time. Initially, IPv6 works as expected, but after a while, it stops working. Upon investigation, I’ve determined that the issue is related to my Windo… Continue reading Which inbound/outbound rules are necessary for stable IPv6 connectivity in Windows 10/11? [migrated]
NAT is so standard for IPv4 that nobody thinks about it but for IPv6 it’s considered a really bad option. (Article from APNIC) Of course there’s the stateless NPTv6 and the firewall can be configured such that the clients don’t get unwante… Continue reading Is NAT66 increasing security?
I’ve been using Little Snitch on my Macbook and I have since a long time a rule to alert on any incoming IPv6 connection, which would be suspicious since I use IPv4 only.
Since a couple of days I’ve been getting regular alerts for incoming… Continue reading Unknown incoming connection attempts from random IPv6 addresses on local network on macOS
Given that commands like ifconfig or ip address don’t require root privileges, apps can access information about ip address. If you use ipv4, you are normally behind NAT and apps would get an address in the 192.168… range, which is not v… Continue reading IPv6 address leaking despite VPN?
I have a co-worker (non-technical workplace), who claims he’s being hacked because some of the time his IPv6 locations are in other parts of the country, or in adjacent cities (large metro area).
I’m pretty sure this is just a random alloc… Continue reading Can anyone explain IPv6 geographic locations, as assigned by Verizon? [closed]