Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1599 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> > > It means that in the early days of migration (specially if people
> > > are not aware of providers suddenly present a dual stack to their
> > > customers) will find their network highly exposed.... (imho that's
> > > the main reason for getting your feet wet early)
> > Is that a _real_ issue to worry about, Hans?  If a customer is
> > IPv4-only, and his provider decides to offer IPv6 too without telling
> > the customer, I don't see that changing anything for the customer. 
> > His network equipment isn't just going to switch into dual-stack just
> > like that.
> > For instance, my provider set up IPv6 on my ADSL line Thursday night,
> > and didn't tell me until Friday morning.  I can assure you it did not
> > affect my site security at all.
>
> Your provider has nothing to do with it.

Well, yes, that is Hans and I were talking about. 

As for your scenario of a malicious user gaining access to my internal
network, well, that is not a genuine concern to me. 


/Per

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Per Jessen, Zürich (12.7°C)

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