[ipv6hackers] Finding v6 hosts by efficiently mapping ip6.arpa

Peter van Dijk peter at 7bits.nl
Thu Mar 29 17:44:22 CEST 2012


On Mar 29, 2012, at 17:27 , Peter van Dijk wrote:

> Hi Gert,
> 
> On Mar 29, 2012, at 16:39 , Gert Doering wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 04:33:45PM +0200, Simon Perreault wrote:
>>> We developed fairly efficient proof-of-concept code that is able to 
>>> enumerate the whole reverse zone in a very reasonable time. 
>>> (Autogenerated subnets need to be skipped.)
>> 
>> What does it do if wildcards are used?
> 
> Presumably it will do 2^(128-prefixlen) queries and the user will abort it. I have not added any intelligence for detecting non-optimal situations.

Question was not for me, I see. Apologies :)

Cheers, Peter


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