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jandrese01/03/20261 replyview on HN

Point of fact it's giving 4 billion Internets worth of addresses to every local subnet.

You will sometimes see admins complain that IPv6 demands that you allow ICMP (at least the TOOBIG messages) through the firewall because they're worried that people on the internet will start doing pingscans of their network. This is because they do not understand what 2^64 is.


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whatevaa01/03/2026

And won't that allow pingscans?

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