[140712] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Conventions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Wed May 18 12:39:59 2011
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 18:39:52 +0200 (CEST)
To: todd@borked.ca
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=CW5yXkc9QTycmwwFB6DUFvy31+Q@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> 1) Is there a general convention about addresses for DNS servers? NTP
> servers? dhcp servers?
DNS server addresses should be short and easy to tape, as already
mentioned.
> 2) Are we tending to use different IPs for each service on a device?
In many cases yes - because that makes it possible to easily move the
service to a different box.
> Finally, what tools do people find themselves using to manage IPv6 and
> addressing?
Excel spreadsheets, HaCi.
> It seems to me that IPAM is almost required to manage IPv6 in
> any sane way, even for very small deployments (My home ISP gave me a /56 and
> a /64).
At least as long as you use static addresses. We like static, and tend
to stay away from SLAAC. We do *not* use EUI-64 for router links. For
customer links we use /64, for backbone links we use /124 (ensures
that SLAAC can never ever be used on the link, and also that the two
ends can be numbered ending in 1 and 2 - nice and simple).
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
