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Re: IPv6 Advertisements

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Stahl)
Tue May 29 12:15:10 2007

Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:23:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
To: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0705291507140.11314@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> vixie had a fun discussion about anycast and dns... something about him
> being sad/sorry about making everyone have to carry a /24 for f-root
> everywhere.
Whether it's a /24 for f-root or a /20 doesn't really make a difference- 
it's a routing table entry either way- and why waste addresses.

I think there are a few services where these sorts of exceptions make 
sense and f-root is certainly one of them.

-Don

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