[193438] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Questions on IPv6 deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Jan 17 16:56:05 2017
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:55:35 -0500
To: Matthew Huff <mhuff@ox.com>
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Matthew Huff <mhuff@ox.com> wrote:
> The reason for allocating a /64 for a point to point link is due to various denial of service attack vectors.
Hi Matthew,
I'm always interested in learning something new. Please explain the
DOS vectors you're referring to and how they're mitigated by
allocating a /64 to the point to point link.
> Just do it.
No. But if you offer a good reason, I'll factor your reason in to my
considerations.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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