Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering

[Lee Howard <Lee () asgard org>]

On 6/18/14 2:44 PM, "John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com> wrote:

> > I find the /50 particularly odd as it's not a nibble boundary and very
> > close to /48. It's almost certain this is an operator who fails to
> > grasp 
> > that they could have easily gotten a larger allocation from their RIR
> > if 
> > they just asked for it and provided the appropriate justification in
> > terms of giving /48s to their customers. OTOH, it's far better than
> > those ridiculous providers that are screwing over their customers with
> > /56s or even worse, /60s.
>
> It's Time-Warner, and they are not ignorant.  I think they're
> experimenting.  They are still working out bugs in their internal
> routing, 
> since my v6 routes have an annoying habit of disappearing inside their
> network if I don't do a ping that passes through them every couple of
> minutes.
>
> Also, it may not actuallly be a /50.  That's what their rwhois says, but
> I haven't done a tcpdump so I don't know what size they're actually
> offering me.

It's either a /64 or a /56 or a misconfiguration.

Lee