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Comment by tyingq

6 years ago

That's an interesting side topic. What do services like Shodan do in an ipv6 world? Dumb brute force scanning seems unlikely.

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Nextgrid  6 years ago

They run NTP servers that are (were?) included in the NTP pool to fish for clients’ IPv6 addresses.

  • tyingq  6 years ago

    Interesting. I also found this post about using UpnP on ipv4 addresses to unmask ipv6. https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/03/ipv6-unmasking-vi...

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