[anti-abuse-wg] Question regarding IP address abuse
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peter h
peter at hk.ipsec.se
Fri Dec 17 22:31:16 CET 2010
On Friday 17 December 2010 21.59, Kong Posh Bhat wrote: > Greetings, > > > > We are trying to develop an architecture that is based around the > premise that there is a special purpose local HTTPS server with a well > known address. We intend to reserve the port number with IANA and > define a well known local address in each of the following address > spaces: 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0, as well as in some private > IPv6 address ranges. > > > > When a device comes up, as part of its startup logic it tries all these > well known addresses one by one, until there is a hit. If there is no > hit, the process terminates. However, if there is a hit, the device > will make a special HTTPS request to this server, which in turn will > deliver some management bootstrapping information to the device. > > > > One of my distinguished colleagues thinks that this constitutes an IP > address abuse. Is that so? I do not seem to find any reference to this > on the IANA Abuse FAQ site (http://www.iana.org/abuse/faq.html). > > > > Thanks in anticipation. I really appreciate your patience with me on > this issue. > I'm not a ripe representative. I do however have a suggestion : why don't you send a multicast packet to a known multicast address ? That way a client with any address ( not only 1918 ones) be functionally equivalent The range would be limited by the networks multicast config, but you could always reach a server on your local wire. > > > Regards, > > Kong Posh Bhat > > Standards Research Lab > > Samsung Telecommunications America > > Ph: 972-761-7450 (Desk); 214-766-1743 (Mobile) > > Fax: 972-761-7631 > > > > > > -- Peter Håkanson There's never money to do it right, but always money to do it again ... and again ... and again ... and again. ( Det är billigare att göra rätt. Det är dyrt att laga fel. )
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