109K views · Oct 1, 2014 · 48:47 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2014–2019
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN cites it as evidence that scanning the whole IPv4 address space is trivial and takes only minutes to hours.
“It is trivial to scan the whole ipv4 address space.”HN comment, 2015
“it was possible to scan the whole Internet in a few hours on a regular connection”
Whole-Internet scan possible in hours
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
“It is trivial to scan the whole ipv4 address space.”
Presenters scanned the IPv4 space in about 40 minutes
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.
“That's probably the DEFCON talk the parent poster is talking about”
Identifies the likely DEFCON talk on mass scanning
That's probably the DEFCON talk the parent poster is talking about: Massscanning the Internet - Defcon 22 (2014) this video
