Re: Address allocated but not live
"I don't want is someone coming across my printer on its current randomised address"
A correctly configured firewall is the solution but just so you have some idea how unlikely that would be --
Assuming a scanning rate of 1,000,000 IP6 addresses per second it would still take nearly 600,000 years to fully scan a /64 bit prefix (2 ^ 64).
Adoption of IP6 only would have the additional benefit of eliminating those pesky scanning botnets (Mirai comes to mind) as locating IOT devices even on non-firewalled randomised IP6 addresses would be a virtually impossible task.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
