A Detailed Measurement View on IPv6 Scanners and Their Adaption to BGP Signals
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Contributors
Abstract
canners are daily visitors of public IPv4 hosts. Scanning IPv6 nodes successfully is still a challenge, which an increasing crowd of actors tries to master. In this paper, we analyze IPv6 scanning under various network conditions to disclose the impact on scanning. We deploy four IPv6 network telescopes, including a reactive /48 telescope and a proactive /32 telescope that is periodically reconfigured by changing BGP announcements. We provide a longitudinal study of eleven months and classify the observed scanners w.r.t. their temporal behavior, their target and network selection strategies, as well as their individual tools, fingerprints, and correlations across categories. We find that silent subnets of larger covering prefixes remain mainly invisible, whereas BGP prefix announcements quickly attract attention by scanners. Based on our findings, we derive operational guidance on how to deploy network telescopes to increase visibility for IPv6 scanners and understand corresponding biases.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 15 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-23 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the ACM on Networking |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | CoNEXT3 |
| Publication status | Published - 4 Sept 2025 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Conference
| Title | ACM 21th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies |
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| Abbreviated title | CoNEXT 2025 |
| Conference number | 21 |
| Duration | 1 - 4 December 2025 |
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| Degree of recognition | International event |
| Location | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| City | Hong Kong |
| Country | Hong Kong |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0002-3825-2807/work/191042023 |
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| Mendeley | f5477180-9eed-302d-993e-a5dbecb3af99 |