RFC 5549 - IPv4 Routes with IPv6 next-hop - Does it really exists?

Wed Jul 29 14:54:14 UTC 2020

Mark Tinka wrote on 29/07/2020 15:51:
> I'm curious to know if this is after-the-fact, as I can't think of a way
> that BGP would find hostnames to setup sessions with, outside of some
> kind of upper layer name resolution capability.
> 
> The draft isn't clear on how this happens, if it is, indeed,
> before-the-fact.

it's a capability negotiation, so is handled on session setup.

Nick