RFC 5157: IPv6 Implications for Network Scanning

The much larger default 64-bit subnet address space of IPv6 should in principle make traditional network (port) scanning techniques used by certain network…

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Incoming relationships (6 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by — RFC 7707: Network Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6583: Operational Neighbor Discovery Problems
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7381: Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5991: Teredo Security Updates
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6018: IPv4 and IPv6 Greynets
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9414: Unfortunate History of Transient Numeric Identifiers