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When my residential ISP started allocating IPv6 blocks, they published our postal codes in the whois database. In Canada, in a city, that postcode is basically a dozen buildings (one side of a street block), at least where I live. For a stalker, it's practically a full address.

We pressured the ISP to remove this information. They resisted, said it was policy, we read the RFCs and argued back. A few weeks later it was removed.

Similarly, most Linux distributions now enable IPv6 privacy extensions. Once people settle in their habits, it becomes more difficult to change this type of behaviour.

IPv6 is a big change. Adopt early, influence policy while you can :)




When I was a student, my rDNS was the student housing building number + apartment number. Makes it easy for people to direct abuse requests at least.




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