[178139] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast Business IPv6 issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Wilson - MTIN)
Tue Feb 17 13:44:07 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Justin Wilson - MTIN <lists@mtin.net>
In-Reply-To: <CALwYWVMT9+LDvAxO8-OkzFUrbiN25sM=jc6ktz6Y-ARH-KyHQQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:44:03 -0500
To: David Sotnick <sotnickd-nanog@ddv.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I don=E2=80=99t think they have a clear policy for V6. I can tell =
everytime my Comcast cable modem is updated because I lose all ipv6 =
connectivity. Right now I am in one of those periods. I can=E2=80=99t =
get ipv6 to pass the modem. Customer support tells me it=E2=80=99s not =
an issue and must be on my end. My he.net tunnels won=E2=80=99t even =
work. =20
Justin
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> On Feb 17, 2015, at 1:38 PM, David Sotnick <sotnickd-nanog@ddv.com> =
wrote:
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> Hi NANOG,
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> I am a Comcast business Internet subscriber and have been struggling =
with
> having my assigned IPv6 /64 block changing every time Comcast pushes =
out a
> firmware update to my (Motorola BitSurfer) CM.
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> It seems rather silly that my IPv4 address has not changed in the six
> months I've been a Comcast business customer, yet my IPv6 address =
changes
> every few weeks, always after a reset command is sent from the =
head-end to
> my CM (or after power outage).
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> My *home* Comcast IPv6 address has not changed in over a year, and the =
same
> applies for my IPv4 address, so something is different about the way
> Comcast is treating their IPv6 business customers.
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> This is getting quite frustrating as I run my security cameras over =
IPv6
> and when the addresses change out from under me, things obviously =
break.
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> Any insights here from the wise hivemind of Nanog or from Comcast =
network
> folks? Any chance static IPv6 will be available to business customers?
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> While I am on the subject =E2=80=94 ip6.arpa reverse DNS delegation =
would also be a
> nice thing to have if and when static IPv6 addressing is made =
available. :)
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> Thanks!
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> David Sotnick
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