[ds6-devel] no more objections

Mauro Tortonesi mauro@deepspace6.net
Mon Dec 30 23:08:33 2002


On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Chris Leishman wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 12:27 AM, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure what the point of 1) and 2) is.  Do we really care if
> > getaddrinfo returns IPv4 mapped addresses?
>
> yes. for security reasons, we should drop IPv4 mapped addresses returned
> by getaddrinfo. see draft-itojun-

ooops, forgot to add the link:

http://playground.iijlab.net/i-d/draft-itojun-ipv6-transition-abuse-01.txt

i have found also these two new docs:

ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/paper/draft-itojun-v6ops-v4mapped-harmful-01.txt
ftp://ftp.itojun.org/pub/paper/draft-cmetz-v6ops-v4mapped-api-harmful-00.txt

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Mauro Tortonesi			mauro@deepspace6.net
				mauro@ferrara.linux.it
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