Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes?

Loránd Jakab ljakab at ac.upc.edu
Thu Dec 9 18:31:43 UTC 2010


On 12/08/2010 11:08 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 8 dec 2010, at 20:10, Mohacsi Janos wrote:
>
>> 	Do you think adopting LISP or similar architectures to reduce the problems mentioned above?
[...]
> Do you lose initial packets when there is no mapping state yet?

Yes. But there are proposals to minimize the chances of that occurring,
by pro-actively refreshing mappings in the local cache before their TTL
expires, and warming up the cache with all entries of an upstream
resolver (with a bulk cache transfer) at router boot time.

-Lorand Jakab




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