Reply to post: Re: Address allocated but not live

Global IPv4 address drought: Seriously, we're done now. We're done

Roland6 Silver badge

Re: Address allocated but not live

"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)."

Sounds like security by obscurity... but then isn't that at the heart of many security approaches...

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