Cited on HN 3 times, 2014–2019, never outright recommendedscore 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN cites it as evidence that scanning the whole IPv4 address space is trivial and takes only minutes to hours.
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.
“It is trivial to scan the whole ipv4 address space.” (HN, 2015)
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.
Presenters scanned the IPv4 space in about 40 minutes
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