Timeline for Is receiving IPv4 connections on AF_INET6 sockets insecure?
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| Oct 7, 2021 at 8:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc with https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc
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| Jun 21, 2015 at 13:18 | vote | accept | imgx64 | ||
| Jun 21, 2015 at 13:03 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | Pretty much. Having the host reject mapped addresses on the wire solves all of these problems, including the last one (which is the main one that *BSD could argue about) so it's mystifying that they chose another approach. | |
| Jun 21, 2015 at 12:23 | comment | added | imgx64 |
So the argument boils down to "Some firewalls and operating systems don't know about ::ffff:<ipv4 address> addresses, so they might let in invalid packets". Is this correct? Because all these cases apply to regular IPv4 packets with these addresses in them (which current firewalls/OSs correctly block).
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| Jun 20, 2015 at 19:18 | history | answered | Michael Hampton | CC BY-SA 3.0 |