[TriLUG] protection against IPv6 attacks

[Brian McCullough]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 09:34:33PM -0400, Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> Howdy folks. I'd like to do more IPv6, but Kevin Otte just pointed out
> these bugs:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464135
> 

Cristobal,

I am confused by this report.

In it he says that he put "2001" into /etc/hosts.deny.  He then states
that he looked at "hosts.deny", presumably "/etc/hosts.deny" and it is
different, "ssh: 2001".  What changed the contents of that file?
Besides, "2001" could be considered equivalent to a Class A IPv4
address.  Does he really want to block all of 2001?


Brian