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Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:39:32 +0900
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
This seems like a really bad idea to me; am I really the only one who noticed? https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-127-00.html
That's definitely a stupid idea. As it requires to update all the end systems not to recognize 127/8 as loopback, releasing Class E, which is 16 times larger than 127/8, as an additional public unicast address range is a lot (16 times) better. Though intermediate systems such as backbone routers must be updated to release Class E, that is a lot lot lot less painful to replace the end systems. Masataka Ohta
Current thread:
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public, (continued)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 19)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Gaurav Kansal (Nov 20)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 20)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Mark Tinka (Nov 17)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public borg (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Owen DeLong via NANOG (Nov 19)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Mark Tinka (Nov 20)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Greg Skinner via NANOG (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Carsten Bormann (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public bzs (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Masataka Ohta (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public John Curran (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public jim deleskie (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Justin Keller (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Jay R. Ashworth (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public William Herrin (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Fred Baker (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Joe Maimon (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public William Herrin (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Måns Nilsson (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public William Herrin (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Jay R. Ashworth (Nov 18)