[AusNOG] Large scale attack kicking off around 10AM

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:13 AM, Patrick Cole wrote:

> Perhaps the first medium sized IPv6 ND cache state attack in the wild?

>From my outside observer's perspective, this scans more like an unintended traffic excursion caused by an unholy combination of someone playing with a packet-generator or grossly misconfiguring something somewhere topologically nearby, combined with the horror that is ICMPv6, uneven BCP deployment, a lack of consistent/thorough/readily-configurable vendor knobs, and the plague of semi-layer-2 encapsulation mechanisms/tunneling which IMHO are the bane of modern internetworking.

Just speculation, mind.  I've no direct evidence, one way or another.

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