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hendry
on Jan 26, 2017
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IPv6 Support for AWS Extended to 15 Regions
Silly question, but doesn't ipv6 make mitigating DoS attacks all that more harder? i.e. you can't easily blacklist IP addresses...
floatboth
on Jan 26, 2017
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Well, you can ban whole /64 subnets :D
hendry
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That's a bit heavy handed, no? :)
hroi
on Jan 26, 2017
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Not really, considering any single subscriber could be assigned a whole /56, and that machines with privacy addressing would be periodically changing the last 64 bits of their address.
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