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Main Authors: Tanveer, Hammas Bin, Chan, Wai Sun, Mok, Ricky K. P., Kappes, Sebastian, Richter, Philipp, Gasser, Oliver, Ronan, John, Berger, Arthur, Claffy, kc
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07506
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author Tanveer, Hammas Bin
Chan, Wai Sun
Mok, Ricky K. P.
Kappes, Sebastian
Richter, Philipp
Gasser, Oliver
Ronan, John
Berger, Arthur
Claffy, kc
author_facet Tanveer, Hammas Bin
Chan, Wai Sun
Mok, Ricky K. P.
Kappes, Sebastian
Richter, Philipp
Gasser, Oliver
Ronan, John
Berger, Arthur
Claffy, kc
contents We introduce new tools and vantage points to develop and integrate proactive techniques to attract IPv6 scan traffic, thus enabling its analysis. By deploying the largest-ever IPv6 proactive telescope in a production ISP network, we collected over 600M packets of unsolicited traffic from 1.9k Autonomous Systems in 10 months. We characterized the sources of unsolicited traffic, evaluated the effectiveness of five major features across the network stack, and inferred scanners' sources of target addresses and their strategies.
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spellingShingle Unveiling IPv6 Scanning Dynamics: A Longitudinal Study Using Large Scale Proactive and Passive IPv6 Telescopes
Tanveer, Hammas Bin
Chan, Wai Sun
Mok, Ricky K. P.
Kappes, Sebastian
Richter, Philipp
Gasser, Oliver
Ronan, John
Berger, Arthur
Claffy, kc
Networking and Internet Architecture
We introduce new tools and vantage points to develop and integrate proactive techniques to attract IPv6 scan traffic, thus enabling its analysis. By deploying the largest-ever IPv6 proactive telescope in a production ISP network, we collected over 600M packets of unsolicited traffic from 1.9k Autonomous Systems in 10 months. We characterized the sources of unsolicited traffic, evaluated the effectiveness of five major features across the network stack, and inferred scanners' sources of target addresses and their strategies.
title Unveiling IPv6 Scanning Dynamics: A Longitudinal Study Using Large Scale Proactive and Passive IPv6 Telescopes
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07506