Issues encountered with assigning all ones IPv6 /64 address? (Was Re: Issues encountered with assigning .0 and .255 as usable addresses?)

Tue Oct 23 12:15:32 UTC 2012

Hello,

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:07:50PM +0000, Paul Zugnoni wrote:
> Curious whether it's commonplace to find systems that
> automatically regard .0 and .255 IP addresses (ipv4) as src/dst in
> packets as traffic that should be considered invalid.

On a separate note, one of my customers discovered over the weekend
that if they bring up an all ones IPv6 address in their /64
(2001:db8:1:1:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff) then they can't exchange traffic
with stuff hosted at hetzner.de such as archives.postgresql.org or
1-media-cdn.foolz.us. Seems filtered somewhere inside Hetzner.

I found the same if I brought up an all ones address in any other
/64 in the same /48 as well. Using ...ffff:ffff:ffff:fffe worked
fine.

I haven't had time to investigate further or tell them yet, though.

Is that sort of thing common?

Cheers,
Andy

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