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BLACKHOLE6(1)		     General Commands Manual		   BLACKHOLE6(1)

NAME
     blackhole6 - A tool to find IPv6 blackholes

SYNOPSIS
     blackhole6 DESTINATION [PARAMETERS]

DESCRIPTION
     blackhole6 is a tool to isolate IPv6 blackholes.

     SCRIPTS

     get-mx

     This script takes no further arguments, and operates as follows:

	 + The tool reads domain names from standard-input (oner per line),
	   and obtains the MX for the corresponding domain.

	 + Lines where the first non-blank character is the numeral sign (#)
	   are consdered to contain comments, and hence are ignored.

	 + The format of the resulting output is:

	   # DOMAIN_NAME (CANONIC_NAME)
	   MX_RECORD_1
	   MX_RECORD_2

     get-ns

     This script takes no further arguments, and operates as follows:

	 + The tool reads domain names from standard-input (oner per line),
	   and obtains the NS records for the corresponding domain.

	 + Lines where the first non-blank character is the numeral sign (#)
	   are consdered to contain comments, and hence are ignored.

	 + The format of the resulting output is:

	   # DOMAIN_NAME (CANONIC_NAME)
	   MX_RECORD_1
	   MX_RECORD_2

     trace-do8-tcp trace-do8-icmp trace-do256-tcp trace-do256-icmp

     These  scripts  are  meant to obtain information about where in the network
     packets employing IPv6 Extension Headers are being dropped. They  test  the
     path  with IPv6 packets containing TCP or ICMPv6 payloads and a Destination
     Options Header of 8 or 256 bytes. Based on the obtained results,  the  tool
     can infer what is the system causing the packet drops.

     trace-hbh8-tcp trace-hbh8-icmp trace-hbh256-tcp trace-hbh256-icmp

     These  scripts  are  meant to obtain information about where in the network
     packets employing IPv6 Extension Headers are being dropped. They  test  the
     path  with  IPv6 packets containing TCP or ICMPv6 payloads and a Hop-by-Hop
     Options Header of 8 or 256 bytes. Based on the obtained results,  the  tool
     can infer what is the system causing the packet drops.

     trace-fh256-tcp trace-fh256-icmp

     These  scripts  are  meant to obtain information about where in the network
     packets employing IPv6 Extension Headers are being dropped. They  test  the
     path  with IPv6 packets containing TCP or ICMPv6 payloads resulting in IPv6
     fragments of around 256 bytes. Based on the obtained results, the tool  can
     infer what is the system causing the packet drops.

     trace-do8-tcp-stdin   trace-do8-icmp-stdin   trace-do256-tcp-stdin   trace-
     do256-icmp-stdin

     These scripts are meant to obtain information about where	in  the  network
     packets  employing  IPv6 Extension Headers are being dropped. They test the
     path with IPv6 packets containing TCP or ICMPv6 payloads and a  Destination
     Options  Header  of 8 or 256 bytes. Based on the obtained results, the tool
     can infer what is the system causing the packet drops. These tools read one
     IPv6 address per line form standard input and, for each of those addresses,
     information is printed with the following syntax:

     trace-hbh8-tcp-stdin  trace-hbh8-icmp-stdin  trace-hbh256-tcp-stdin  trace-
     hbh256-icmp-stdin

     These  scripts  are  meant to obtain information about where in the network
     packets employing IPv6 Extension Headers are being dropped. They  test  the
     path  with  IPv6 packets containing TCP or ICMPv6 payloads and a Hop-by-Hop
     Options Header of 8 or 256 bytes. Based on the obtained results,  the  tool
     can infer what is the system causing the packet drops. These tools read one
     IPv6 address per line form standard input and, for each of those addresses,
     information is printed with the following syntax:

     trace-fh256-tcp-stdin trace-fh256-icmp-stdin

     These  scripts  are  meant to obtain information about where in the network
     packets employing IPv6 Extension Headers are being dropped. They  test  the
     path  with IPv6 packets containing TCP or ICMPv6 payloads resulting in IPv6
     fragments of around 256 bytes. Based on the obtained results, the tool  can
     infer  what  is  the  system causing the packet drops. These tools read one
     IPv6 address per line form standard input and, for each of those addresses,
     information is printed with the following syntax:

     -h, --help

	    Print help information for the scan6 tool.

EXAMPLES
     The following sections illustrate typical use cases of the script6 tool.

     Example #1

     # scan6 -i eth0 -L -e -v

     Perform host scanning on the local network ("-L"  option)	using  interface
     "eth0"  ("-i"  option). Use both ICMPv6 echo requests and unrecognized IPv6
     options of type 10xxxxxx (default). Print link-link layer	addresses  along
     with IPv6 addresses ("-e" option). Be verbose ("-v" option).

     Example #2

     #	 scan6	 -d   2001:db8::/64   --tgt-virtual-machines   all   --ipv4-host
     10.10.10.0/24

     Scan for virtual machines	(both  VirtualBox  and	vmware)  in  the  prefix
     2001:db8::/64. The additional information about the IPv4 prefix employed by
     the host system is leveraged to reduce the search space.

     Example #3

     #	 scan6	 -d   2001:db8::/64   --tgt-ipv4-embedded   ipv4-32  --ipv4-host
     10.10.10.0/24

     Scan for IPv6 addresses of the network 2001:db8::/64 that	embed  the  IPv4
     prefix 10.10.10.0/24 (with the 32-bit encoding).

     Example #4

     # scan6 -d 2001:db8:0-500:0-1000

     Scan  for IPv6 addresses of the network 2001:db8::/64, varying the two low-
     est order 16-bit words of the addresses in the range 0-500 and 0-1000,  re-
     spectively.

     Example #5

     # scan6 -d fc00::/64 --tgt-vendor 'Dell Inc' -p tcp

     Scan  for	network  devices manufactured by 'Dell Inc' in the target prefix
     fc00::/64. The tool will employ TCP segments as the probe	packets  (rather
     than the default ICMPv6 echo requests).

     Example #6

     # scan6 -i eth0 -L -S 66:55:44:33:22:11 -p unrec -P global -v

     Use  the "eth0" interface ("-i" option) to perform host-scanning on the lo-
     cal  network  ("-L"  option).  The  Ethernet  Source  Address  is	set   to
     "66:55:44:33:22:11"  ("-S"  option). The probe packets will be IPv6 packets
     with unrecognized options of type 10xxxxxx ("-p"  option).  The  tool  will
     only print IPv6 global addresses ("-P" option). The tool will be verbose.

     Example #7

     # scan6 -d 2001:db8::/64 -w KNOWN_IIDS

     Perform  an  address  scan  of  a	set  of  known	hosts listed in the file
     KNOWN_IIDS, at remote network 2001:db8::/64. The target addresses	are  ob-
     taining  by  concatenating the network prefix 2001:db8::/64 with the inter-
     face IDs of each of the addresses fund in the file KNOWN_IIDS.

     Example #8

     # scan6 -i eth0 -L -P global --print-unique -e

     Use the "eth0" interface ("-i" option) to perform host-scanning on the  lo-
     cal  network  ("-L"  option). Print only global unicast addresses ("-P" op-
     tion), and at most one IPv6 address per Ethernet address  ("--print-unique"
     option).  Ethernet  addresses will be printed along with the corresponiding
     IPv6 address ("-e" option).

     Example #9

     # scan6 -m knownprefixes.txt -w knowniids.txt -l -z 60 -t -v

     Build the list of targets from the IPv6  prefixes	contained  in  the  file
     'knownprefixes.txt'  and  the  Interface  IDs  (IIDs) contained in the file
     'knowniids.txt'. Poll the targets periodically ("-l" option), and sleep  60
     seconds  after  each  iteration  ("-z" option). Print a timestamp along the
     IPv6 address of each alive node ("-t" option). Be verbose ("-v" option).

AUTHOR
     The script6 tool and the corresponding manual pages were produced	by  Fer-
     nando  Gont  <fgont@si6networks.com>  for	SI6 Networks <http://www.si6net-
     works.com>.

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Fernando Gont.

     Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
     the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or  any  later
     version  published  by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sec-
     tions, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy  of	the  li-
     cense is available at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>.

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