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Re: /128 IPv6 prefixs in the wild?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Thu Dec 15 09:41:10 2011

Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:39:56 -0800
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
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In a message written on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:24:56AM +0530, Glen Kent wr=
ote:
> What are the scenarios when IPv6 routers would learn a large number of
> /128 prefixes?

In addition to the loopback interfaces already mentioned, you may
also see "virtual addresses" of several kinds.  For instance an
anycasted recursive resolver service may come in as a /128.

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