Tag Archives: IPv6

How to disable IPv6 in Linux?

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Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated …

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IPv6 issues: Localized Denial-of-service caused by incorrect NXDOMAIN responses from AAAA queries

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This is an unusual situation and a misconfiguration on DNS servers that can be exploited using a simple AAAA DNS query. This causes a localized Denial-of-service situation where users behind a specific resolver will get: Error: Unable to determine IP address from host name www.somevulnerablesite.com The DNS server returned: Name …

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