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Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]


From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis () kurtis pp se>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:10:52 +0100


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        Paul,

On 2004-11-28, at 17.47, Paul Vixie wrote:


(catching up)

(you missed some stuff.)

Yes, I have had lot's of fun reading through almost a week of Nanog...

the property of a6/dname that wasn't widely understood was its 
intrinsic
multihoming support.  the idea was that you could go from N upstreams 
to
N+1 (or N-1) merely by adding/deleting DNAME RRs.  so if you wanted to
switch from ISP1 to ISP2 you'd start by adding a connection to ISP2, 
then
add a DNAME for ISP2, then delete the DNAME for ISP1, then disconnect 
ISP1.

Somehow I must be confused. AFAIK DANME/A6 is/would be/could have been 
of great help with the name to number mapping when renumbering. But the 
main problem is the actual renumbering of the HOSTs. And I fail to see 
how A6/DNAME would help. As a matter of fact the problems that was 
brought to multi6 are a lot more than what you have listed A6/DNAME to 
address. See RFC3582 and draft-lear-multi6-things-to-think-about-03.txt 
for an overview.

given that ipv6 is now somewhat deployed without rapid renumbering, and
that rapid renumbering could have required logic in "both endpoints" of
every flow, but that there are now a lot of "other endpoints" without 
any
such logic, it seems to me that MULTI6's only option is to make NAT 
work,
even if you call it "site local addressing" or even "ULA's".  (show 
me.)

ULAs are not a product of multi6.

- - kurtis -

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