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

[harbor235]

Peter,

Great work, that changes the game.

Mike

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Peter van Dijk <peter at 7bits.nl> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> in a discussion with a friend recently the thought occurred to me that due
> to how NOERROR and NXDOMAIN in DNS work, finding all existing reverses in
> an ip6.arpa reverse zone could be done very quickly.
>
> I have written a blog post at
> http://7bits.nl/blog/2012/03/26/finding-v6-hosts-by-efficiently-mapping-ip6-arpathat explains the workings. Code at
> https://github.com/habbie/ip6-arpa-scan/
>
> I was unable to find any existing references to this trick; if you do have
> any, please let me know!
>
> Kind regards,
> Peter van Dijk
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