IPv6 and CDN's
Owen DeLong
owen at delong.com
Sun Nov 28 19:47:14 UTC 2021
> On Nov 28, 2021, at 08:55 , Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:
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> On 11/28/21 16:20, Jean St-Laurent via NANOG wrote:
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>> I like to put some servers behind that scheme.
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>> 2601::443:xxxx for https servers
>> 2601::25:xxxx for MTA servers.
>> 2601::993:xxxx for IMAP
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>> It gives a quick note of what is that ip even though it’s ipv6 and usually non-human readable.
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>> Not sure what kind of scheme is use by medium/big ISP.
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>> Do you go by zip code of the area covered or some kind of logical to help people know what is behind that ipv6 network?
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> We really aren't clever with IPv6 address design and assignment. The most we do is assign:
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> - 1x /48 to Loopbacks for all routers.
> - /48's per PoP for infrastructure links.
> - /48's per city for /56 assignments to customers.
> - /48's per city for assignments to customers.
Why are you so stingy with customer assignments?
Why not properly assign /48s to customers and /40s to cities?
Owen
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