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Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:00:11 -0700
On Oct 22, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Perry Lorier wrote:
I thought ULA-C was dead... Did someone resurrect this unfortunate bad idea?trejrco () gmail com wrote:You want to allow for more than one for obvious fault isolation and load balancing reasons. The draft suggested using <prefix>:FFFF::1 I personally would suggest getting a well known ULA-C allocation assigned to IANA, then use <prefix>::<protocol assignment>:1 <prefix>::<protocol assignment>:2 and <prefix>::<protocol assignment>:3, where <protocol assignment> could be "0035" for DNS, and "007b" for NTP, and if you're feeling adventurous you could use "0019" for outgoing SMTP relay.WRT "Anycast DNS"; Perhaps a special-case of ULA, FD00::53?
... Heck, start a registry (@IANA) and add in FD00::101, etc. ... Maybe reserve FD00::/96 for this type of "ULA port-based anycast allocation". (16bits would only reach 9999 w/o hex-conversion (if hex-converted could reserve FD00::/112 ... But would be less obvious))Easily identified, not globally routable, can be pre-programmed in implementations/applications ... ?Exactly, seems easy, straight forward, robust, reliable and allows for things like fate sharing and fail over.
Why pull this out of ULA? Why not pull it out of 0000/16 or one of the other reserved prefixes?
Owen
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Joe Maimon (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN bmanning (Oct 21)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN bmanning (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Perry Lorier (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN bmanning (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Perry Lorier (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN trejrco (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Perry Lorier (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Owen DeLong (Oct 22)
- RE: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN ... anycast TJ (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN ... anycast Perry Lorier (Oct 23)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN ... anycast TJ (Oct 23)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN ... anycast Owen DeLong (Oct 23)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN ... anycast Chris Adams (Oct 23)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN ... anycast Perry Lorier (Oct 23)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Perry Lorier (Oct 23)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN TJ (Oct 23)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Owen DeLong (Oct 23)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN TJ (Oct 23)