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IPv6 Hitlists at Scale: Be Careful What You Wish For

Year: 2023

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Today's network measurements rely heavily on Internet-wide scanning, employing tools like ZMap that are capable of quickly iterating over the entire IPv4 address space. Unfortunately, IPv6's vast address space poses an existential threat for Internet-wide scans and traditional network measurement techniques. To address this reality, efforts are underway to develop "hitlists" of known-active IPv6 addresses to reduce the search space for would-be scanners. As a result, there is an inexorable push for constructing as large and complete a hitlist as possible.

Source: ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM)

DOI: 10.1145/3603269.3604829

Authors: Erik Rye, Dave Levin

Institution: University of Maryland, College Park

Language: English

Topic: Network Security and Intrusion Detection

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: National Science Foundation

Awards: CNS Core: Large: Collaborative Research: Towards an Evolvable Public Key Infrastructure, CAREER: Automatically Learning to Evade Internet Censorship