Re: [NANOG] US DoD receives chunked IPv6 /13 (14x /22 but not totally consecutive)

2008-05-18 Thread Pekka Savola
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Colin Alston wrote: > On 16/05/2008 20:15 Christopher LILJENSTOLPE wrote: >> My guess is that they don't want to be tied to only announcing a >> single /13. Each of those organizations is bigger than a lot of >> service providers out there... > > Since when do you have to

Re: [NANOG] US DoD receives chunked IPv6 /13 (14x /22 but not totally consecutive)

2008-05-17 Thread Christopher LILJENSTOLPE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You certainly don't have to. However, as other folks have indicated here, that is the way that some folks read it. My guess is that this was purely for network topology and administrative reasons. Chris On 16 May 2008, at 12.51, Colin A

Re: [NANOG] US DoD receives chunked IPv6 /13 (14x /22 but not totally consecutive)

2008-05-16 Thread Colin Alston
On 16/05/2008 20:15 Christopher LILJENSTOLPE wrote: > My guess is that they don't want to be tied to only announcing a > single /13. Each of those organizations is bigger than a lot of > service providers out there... Since when do you have to announce only the same size prefix as your

Re: [NANOG] US DoD receives chunked IPv6 /13 (14x /22 but not totally consecutive)

2008-05-16 Thread Christopher Morrow
Please keep the political rhetoric off-list, thanks. On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Jeroen Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > As everybody is a big fan of securing their networks against foreign > attacks, be aware that the US DoD has been assigned 14 /22's, IPv6 that > is, not

Re: [NANOG] US DoD receives chunked IPv6 /13 (14x /22 but not totally consecutive)

2008-05-16 Thread Christopher LILJENSTOLPE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, Not to address the political issues here (which are deep, wide, and WAY too much of a black-hole), remember, that the DoD is not a single organization from a networking perspective. There are a number of different organizatio

Re: [NANOG] US DoD receives chunked IPv6 /13 (14x /22 but not totally consecutive)

2008-05-16 Thread Dorn Hetzel
Perhaps it is an attempt to make their address space so sparsely populated that it's close to impossible to find a host without knowing it's address in the first place? On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Jeroen Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > As everybody is a big fan of securing

[NANOG] US DoD receives chunked IPv6 /13 (14x /22 but not totally consecutive)

2008-05-16 Thread Jeroen Massar
Hi folks, As everybody is a big fan of securing their networks against foreign attacks, be aware that the US DoD has been assigned 14 /22's, IPv6 that is, not IPv4, they all come from a single IPv6 /13 though, which is what they apparently asked for in the beginning, at least that was the rumor, w