[172429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lee Howard)
Wed Jun 18 15:49:38 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:49:33 -0400
From: Lee Howard <Lee@asgard.org>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1406181441030.59763@joyce.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 6/18/14 2:44 PM, "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>> I find the /50 particularly odd as it's not a nibble boundary and very
>> close to /48. It's almost certain this is an operator who fails to
>>grasp
>> that they could have easily gotten a larger allocation from their RIR
>>if
>> they just asked for it and provided the appropriate justification in
>> terms of giving /48s to their customers. OTOH, it's far better than
>> those ridiculous providers that are screwing over their customers with
>> /56s or even worse, /60s.
>
>It's Time-Warner, and they are not ignorant. I think they're
>experimenting. They are still working out bugs in their internal
>routing,
>since my v6 routes have an annoying habit of disappearing inside their
>network if I don't do a ping that passes through them every couple of
>minutes.
>
>Also, it may not actuallly be a /50. That's what their rwhois says, but
>I haven't done a tcpdump so I don't know what size they're actually
>offering me.
It's either a /64 or a /56 or a misconfiguration.
Lee
