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		icedchai 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over th... "Just add an entry to your routing table" ... it's virtually impossible to do that for RFC-1918 addresses across the internet. It will be filtered at the ISP border or an upstream. Is it theoretically possible? Yes. Is it an actual risk? Probably not.

megous 3 months ago [–]

Well, if you're other customer of the ISP on the same network, then that may get more interesting... (or inside VPS provider's network)

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