[96916] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Advertisements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Stahl)
Tue May 29 13:55:40 2007
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 12:23:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
To: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200705291529.QAA11921@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>> I understand the problems but I think there are clear cut cases where
>> /48's make sense- a large scale anycast DNS provider would seem to be a
>> good candidate for a /48 and I would hope it would get routed. Then again
>> that might be the only sensible reason...
>
> Don't give people an excuse to deagg their /32
RIPE may only give out /32's but ARIN gives out /48's so there wouldn't be
any deaggregation in that case.
It's a question of cost versus benefit.
Does it make more sense to save a routing table entry- or reduce traffic
by localizing DNS through anycasting?
-Don
