RE: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-30 Thread Barry Greene (bgreene)
This assumes a single machine scanning, not a botnet of 1000 or even the 1.5m the dutch gov't collected 2 yrs ago. Again, a sane discussion is in order. Scanning isn't AS EASY, but it certainly is still feasible, With 1.5 million hosts it will only take 3500 years... for a

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-29 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Tue, 29 May 2007, Donald Stahl wrote: That said- ARIN is handing out /48's- should we be blocking validly assigned networks? your network might have to to protect it's valuable routing slots. There are places in the v4 world where /24's are not carried either. So, as Bill said just

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-29 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Tue, 29 May 2007, Donald Stahl wrote: That said- ARIN is handing out /48's- should we be blocking validly assigned networks? your network might have to to protect it's valuable routing slots. There are places in the v4 world where /24's are not carried either. So, as Bill said

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-29 Thread Donald Stahl
vixie had a fun discussion about anycast and dns... something about him being sad/sorry about making everyone have to carry a /24 for f-root everywhere. Whether it's a /24 for f-root or a /20 doesn't really make a difference- it's a routing table entry either way- and why waste addresses. I

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-29 Thread Donald Stahl
RIPE may only give out /32's but ARIN gives out /48's so there wouldn't be any deaggregation in that case. The RIPE NCC assign /48s from 2001:0678::/29 according to ripe-404: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-404.html Yeah I missed that. This matches ARIN's policy for critical

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-29 Thread William F. Maton Sotomayor
On Tue, 29 May 2007, David Conrad wrote: Should've clarified: this was in the context of IPv4... To be honest, I'm not sure what the appropriate equivalent would be in IPv6 (/128 or /64? Arguments can be made for both I suppose). There have been discussions of this sort made over the

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-29 Thread bmanning
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:14:51PM +0100, Brandon Butterworth wrote: You get one shot at fixed prefix size filters, miss and you'll pay forever. Which is more scarce, /32's or routing table entries. your first lema is false. and RTE are more scarce. brandon let

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-29 Thread Donald Stahl
This assumes a single machine scanning, not a botnet of 1000 or even the 1.5m the dutch gov't collected 2 yrs ago. Again, a sane discussion is in order. Scanning isn't AS EASY, but it certainly is still feasible, With 1.5 million hosts it will only take 3500 years... for a _single_ /64! I'm