[97032] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 6bone space used still in the free (www.ietf.org over IPv6 broken) (Was: why same names, was Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Wed May 30 21:45:55 2007
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 01:20:26 +0000
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>, Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>,
ietf@ietf.org, ipv6@he.net, ipv6@gblx.net,
Bill Manning <bmanning@karoshi.com>
In-Reply-To: <465D9224.9090402@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> And what do we see: 6bone space and still in use.
>
> As a lot of places correctly filter it out, the PMTU's get dropped, as
> they are supposed to be dropped.
>
> The whois.6bone.net registry is fun of course:
>
> inet6num: 3FFE:800::/24
> netname: ISI-LAP
> descr: Harry Try IPv6
> country: CA
one very good reason to not trust whois databases.
> Fortunately it still also has:
>
> ipv6-site: ISI-LAP
> origin: AS4554
> descr: LAP-EXCHANGE
> Los Angeles
> country: US
>
> Which matches what GRH has on list for it: Bill.
Hi.
> Now I have a very very very simple question:
>
> Can you folks finally, a year after the 6bone was supposed to be
> completely gone, renumber from out that 6bone address space that you
> are not supposed to use anymore?
Sure... there are only a few left. Got rid of two a couple
weeks back. That said....
I will announce the prefix as long as people are using it.
(whine away)
> Thank you, I sincerely hope that this matter will finally be resolved.
It will, but not on your arbitrary timetable.
>
> Greets,
> Jeroen
>