[49663] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bogus bogon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Tauber)
Mon Jul 8 16:55:58 2002
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:55:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tony Tauber <ttauber@genuity.net>
To: Rob Thomas <robt@cymru.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <ROTMAILER.0207081505360.19035-100000@dragon.sauron.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Rob Thomas wrote:
> Hi, John.
>
> > 192.88.99.0/24 which is the 6to4 anycast network. Do we really
> > want to be filtering that prefix?
>
> Good question. I'm re-reading RFC 3068 now, and the RFC appears to
> allow for the advertisement of this prefix into the global table.
> I'm wondering if this is wise, however. It seems this prefix would
> best be used internally. What do others think?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob.
I believe the idea is that it typically comes from outside
one's domain because it's supposed to allow edge islands of
IPv6 to find the mainland. If you had a connection to the
mainland under your control, you wouldn't need this trick to
get there.
At least that's my understanding.
Tony
