[118113] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 internet broken, Verizon route prefix length policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon Oct 12 19:33:27 2009
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:32:42 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200910122240.n9CMel2I000196@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <4AD382E4.9010901@iglou.com>, Jeff McAdams writes:
>> Seth Mattinen wrote:
>>
>>> If you are interested, I don't want to spam the list with my Verizon
>>> horror story, but you can read it here:
>>> http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/category/ipv6/
>> At the risk of sounding like I'm piling on, I'm in the same basically
>> the same boat that Seth is, except that I do know who my account rep is
>> and have been in touch with him.
>>
>> Verizon's policy has been related to me that they will not accept or
>> propogate any IPv6 route advertisements with prefix lengths longer than
>> /32. Full stop. So that even includes those of us that have /48 PI
>> space from ARIN that are direct customers of Verizon.
>
> Looks like Verizon doesn't want any IPv6 customers. If a company
> has idiotic policies like this vote with your wallet.
>
I am, sort of; I'm a new customer so they installed, but I haven't
accepted it yet. Unfortunately I won't be able to get back to dealing
with it until late next week at the earliest as I'm in the middle of
moving to a new facility.
~Seth
