IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

Roland Dobbins rdobbins at arbor.net
Thu Oct 9 21:08:30 UTC 2014


On Oct 10, 2014, at 3:49 AM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> 6752 isn't germane; it has to do with using private IP addresses on routers, which borks things up when the router has to generate an ICMP type 3. 

I beg to differ, as noted by Owen DeLong in this same thread:

On 9 October 2014 22:01, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

> 	Having public addresses in trace-routes, ideally with good reverse DNS is actually useful.
> 	Clarity is almost always an advantage over obscurity when one is troubleshooting something.
> 	Being able to ping the link address is useful for troubleshooting.
> 	Being able to source packets from a particular link address can be useful for troubleshooting.

Several of the very same caveats apply - that's why I cited the informational RFC with regards to private IP addressing, rather than re-typing the same things all over again.

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