IPv6 internet broken, Verizon route prefix length policy

Tue Oct 13 00:16:48 UTC 2009

 From where I sit, it looks like:

a.root-servers.net has IPv6 address 2001:503:ba3e::2:30
BGP routing table entry for 2001:503:ba3e::/48

f.root-servers.net has IPv6 address 2001:500:2f::f
BGP routing table entry for 2001:500:2f::/48

h.root-servers.net has IPv6 address 2001:500:1::803f:235
BGP routing table entry for 2001:500:1::/48

j.root-servers.net has IPv6 address 2001:503:c27::2:30
BGP routing table entry for 2001:503:c27::/48

k.root-servers.net has IPv6 address 2001:7fd::1
BGP routing table entry for 2001:7fd::/32

l.root-servers.net has IPv6 address 2001:500:3::42
BGP routing table entry for 2001:500:3::/48

m.root-servers.net has IPv6 address 2001:dc3::35
BGP routing table entry for 2001:dc3::/32

b.root-servers.net has no AAAA record
c.root-servers.net has no AAAA record
d.root-servers.net has no AAAA record
e.root-servers.net has no AAAA record
g.root-servers.net has no AAAA record
i.root-servers.net has no AAAA record

So... Likely, Verizon customers can reach k and m root servers via IPv6
and not the others.

The fact that b, c, d, e, g, and i do not have AAAA records actually  
concerns me
more than the fact that Verizon customers can only reach two.

Owen

On Oct 12, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Nathan Ward wrote:

> On 13/10/2009, at 8:26, Jeff McAdams <jeffm at iglou.com> wrote:
>
>> Verizon's policy has been related to me that they will not accept  
>> or propogate any IPv6 route advertisements with prefix lengths  
>> longer than /32.  Full stop.  So that even includes those of us  
>> that have /48 PI space from ARIN that are direct customers of  
>> Verizon.
>
> What about the small matter of all of the current AAAAs for the the  
> IPv6 enabled root DNS servers?
>
> --
> Nathan Ward