[109372] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 routing /48s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry Lorier)
Tue Nov 18 16:13:26 2008
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:13:07 +1300
From: Perry Lorier <perry@coders.net>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
In-Reply-To: <49230296.3080407@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> Having no route is not a problem, you should get a destination
> unreachable directly and all is fine because IPv4 should be used as a
> fallback.
>
>
The big problem is when you have a route to them, but they don't have a
route back. You don't get destination unreachables, but instead get
timeouts, and pain, and misery (btdt). :(