
vissago
3 HN mentions · mentioned in 3 months, 2014–2019
48:47 · 109K views · Oct 1, 2014
A DEF CON 22 panel with Rob Graham, Paul McMillan and Dan Tentler on the quirks of scanning the entire internet with masscan. They discuss how fast IPv4 can be scanned and what the results reveal.
HN cites it as evidence that scanning the whole IPv4 address space is trivial and takes only minutes to hours.
3 comments from Hacker News
These guys will tell you: this video It is trivial to scan the whole ipv4 address space. I think the guys in this video did it in 40mins or so while presenting.
As a side note, I recently learned that it was possible to scan the whole Internet in a few hours on a regular connection: this video
That's probably the DEFCON talk the parent poster is talking about: Massscanning the Internet - Defcon 22 (2014) this video