[142584] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How long is reasonable to fix a routing issue in IPv6?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Jul 8 17:25:23 2011
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:24:33 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <87fwmged6u.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:21:13PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Jared Mauch:
>
> > 2) is a mapped-v4 address a valid *source* address on the wire even if it's not a valid dest?
>
> By the way, has the analogous issue involving v4 addresses from
> RFC 1918 space ever been settled?
define "valid"?
mapped-v4 and 1918 addresses are valid in that both meet the address format constraints.
technically they work as both source and destination - the restriction is administrative.
/bill
