[175213] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Sat Oct 11 02:37:41 2014
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From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
In-Reply-To: <1692884369.149117.1413009191366.JavaMail.zimbra@snappytelecom.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:37:28 +0700
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Oct 11, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net> =
wrote:
> I am trying to understand what is sub-optimal about doing so...Waste =
of Ipv6 space ? or some other technical reason ?
It's wasteful of address space, but more importantly, it turns your =
router into a sinkole.
> (is a /64 address are a 'sinkhole' the only reason ? )
That's a pretty big reason not to use /64s.
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