On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 06:00, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:

> [...]  I can't think of anyone that would go through the
> trouble of unpacking pcap output to find IP addresses they could attack.
> They either
> farm IP addresses from emails, dns queries, or just plain find blocks of
> IP addresses
> to attack.
>
> To this observation, add the fact that I have a few systems which are
> "open" for the
> express purpose of cataloging where ssh attacks are sourced.  The systems
> I have
> are both IPv4 and IPv6.  All attacks have been against IPv4.  In over a
> year of these
> systems supporting IPv6 there have been Zero attacks on those addresses.
>

As more systems use IPv6,  bad actors will have to collect active IPv6
addresses.  You may
be one of the first to see that start.

-- 
George N. White III
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