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MobiusHorizonstoday at 5:46 AM2 repliesview on HN

I don’t have any idea how they got the ip, it could certainly have been making outbound connections, though. I think it had NTP, although I might have pointed it at a local server we had for that.


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eqvinoxtoday at 7:22 AM

> I don’t have any idea how they got the ip,

You might've been using DHCPv6 assigning sequential addresses starting at 1?

Remember: friends don't let friends use DHCPv6[*]. Help out, uninstall DHCPv6 today.

[*] in IA_NA mode (address assignment). PD and stateless info-only are fine.

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vayliantoday at 6:29 AM

Another possible explanation is that the IP was not random enough. For example: network_prefix::1