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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