That's just plain as* bullsh** right there. -- J. Hellenthal
The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. > On Jan 30, 2022, at 19:09, Töma Gavrichenkov <xima...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Peace, > >> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 4:38 PM Smahena Amakran <smahenamak...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> For my studies, I am researching IPv6 adoption. > > > For your consideration, there's one thing that's always overlooked. > > E.g. I've been talking once to a big employee of a large content provider, > and that person told me they don't enable IPv6 because doing otherwise > produces tons of comment spam. > > The thing is, we have this spam problem. This is not really the "information > security issue" you've mentioned, this is just a glimpse of a real issue. > > IPv6 is now cheap as chips. It's very dirty therefore. All kinds of bots, > spammers, password brute force programs live in there, and it's significantly > harder to correlate and ditch these with the sparse IPv6 address space. > > ISPs don't typically focus on these kinds of things but ISPs, speaking of > large ones, are also typically champions in IPv6 deployment. It's usually > content providers who don't do their stuff. And, as sad as it gets, it's not > getting away any time soon since it's there for a reason. > > -- > Töma
