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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Scanning the Internet

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This was made famous in the film WarGames when David Lightman tries to connect to a server in Sunnyvale, California. ipv6 is designed to overcome the problems of ipv4 address exhaustion. So it would be very, very hard to scan for all the ipv6 addresses. billion addresses. We won't exhaust that number anytime soon.