Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-13 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 10 December 2012 13:27, Schiller, Heather A heather.schil...@verizon.com wrote: Actually, requiring a public whois record is the way it always has been, that's only recently changed. I think most folks would agree that, IPv4 /32 :: IPv6 /128 as IPv4 /29 :: IPv6 /64 So, while you are

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-11 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 10, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message 272782d1-8dea-4718-9429-8b0505dd3...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: Sent from my iPad On Dec 10, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: =20 In message 50c65c84.6080...@dougbarton.us, Doug

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-11 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 10, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Constantine A. Murenin muren...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 December 2012 23:10, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Frankly, the more I think about this, the less it's clear why someone like hetzner.de would actually want you to be using their native IPv6 support,

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-11 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 10, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 12/10/2012 03:14 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Dec 10, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Schiller, Heather A wrote: I think most folks would agree that, IPv4 /32 :: IPv6

RE: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Schiller, Heather A
Actually, requiring a public whois record is the way it always has been, that's only recently changed. I think most folks would agree that, IPv4 /32 :: IPv6 /128 as IPv4 /29 :: IPv6 /64 So, while you are right, that swip'ing a v4 /32 has never been required, I think your analogy of a v6 /64

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Schiller, Heather A wrote: I think most folks would agree that, IPv4 /32 :: IPv6 /128 as IPv4 /29 :: IPv6 /64 Quite the opposite in fact. In IPv6 a /64 is roughly equivalent to a /32 in IPv4. As in, it's the smallest possible assignment that will allow an end-user host

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Randy Bush
IPv4 /32 :: IPv6 /128 i.e. a single host or gkw behind a nat. kinda what i get from comcast and twt now. IPv4 /29 :: IPv6 /64 i.e. i get a lan segment. makes sense The minimum assignment requiring a swip is also ensconced in RIR policy. i am sure that, if you dig deeply enough, a recipe

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 50c65c84.6080...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton writes: On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Schiller, Heather A wrote: I think most folks would agree that, IPv4 /32 :: IPv6 /128 as IPv4 /29 :: I Pv6 /64 Quite the opposite in fact. In IPv6 a /64 is roughly equivalent to a /32 in IPv4. As in,

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Dec 10, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Schiller, Heather A wrote: I think most folks would agree that, IPv4 /32 :: IPv6 /128 as IPv4 /29 :: IPv6 /64 Quite the opposite in fact. In IPv6 a /64 is roughly equivalent to

RE: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Ian Smith
A. Murenin; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Schiller, Heather A wrote: I think most folks would agree that, IPv4 /32 :: IPv6 /128 as IPv4 /29 :: IPv6 /64 Doug - No virus found in this message. Checked

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Owen DeLong
Sent from my iPad On Dec 10, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message 50c65c84.6080...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton writes: On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Schiller, Heather A wrote: I think most folks would agree that, IPv4 /32 :: IPv6 /128 as IPv4 /29 :: I Pv6 /64 Quite

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Owen DeLong
: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Schiller, Heather A wrote: I think most folks would agree that, IPv4 /32 :: IPv6 /128 as IPv4 /29 :: IPv6 /64 Doug - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 272782d1-8dea-4718-9429-8b0505dd3...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: Sent from my iPad On Dec 10, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: =20 In message 50c65c84.6080...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton writes: On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Schiller, Heather A wrote:

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 8 December 2012 23:10, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Frankly, the more I think about this, the less it's clear why someone like hetzner.de would actually want you to be using their native IPv6 support, instead of the one provided by HE.net through their free tunnelbroker.net service.

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 10 December 2012 16:07, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: You don't SWIP each residential customer with IPv4. You often SWIP blocks of residential customers down to the pop level. You often SWIP each commercial customer with IPv4. To require a SWIP entry for each residential customer is

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Randy Bush
You don't SWIP each residential customer with IPv4. you don't swip anybody. some folk swip each residential customer. randy

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/10/2012 03:14 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Dec 10, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Schiller, Heather A wrote: I think most folks would agree that, IPv4 /32 :: IPv6 /128 as IPv4 /29 :: IPv6 /64 Quite the opposite in fact. In IPv6 a /64 is

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: It's being implied everywhere that native IPv6 is somehow important to seek, since we're running out of IPv4 addresses. Ok, so I'll give you that tunneling a really short bit, tunneling isn't too bad, but native is most of the time better.

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-09 Thread Randy Bush
reliable tunnel bzzzt! oxymoron alert!!!

RE: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-09 Thread Siegel, David
lower your marginal cost if there are strategic reasons for building and maintaining that backbone. Dave -Original Message- From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:patr...@ianai.net] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2012 8:23 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-09 Thread Darius Jahandarie
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: The vast majority of AS-AS boundaries on the Internet are settlement free peering. I guess that makes the Internet a scam. As for the costs involved, free is a relative term. Most people think of peering as free

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-09 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, Ok, so I'll give you that tunneling a really short bit, tunneling isn't too bad, but native is most of the time better. So sad that some companies mess up in such a way that their customers rather tunnel than use their native infra... :-( - Sander

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-09 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Dec 9, 2012, at 2:58 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: reliable tunnel bzzzt! oxymoron alert!!! Intellectually I want to agree with you, but after some reflection... We use lots of tunnels at my org - the IPsec variety. A quick non-scientific query of our monitoring logs reveals

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-09 Thread Randy Bush
reliable tunnel bzzzt! oxymoron alert!!! We use lots of tunnels at my org - the IPsec variety. as does iij, very heavily. and it has some issues. A quick non-scientific query of our monitoring logs reveals that our tunnels are exactly as reliable as the circuits and routers which

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-09 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, Ryan Malayter wrote: But where are all these horrifically unreliable tunnels? 6to4 is one example. I'd say since PMTUD is too often broken on IPv4 (if the tunneling routers even react properly to PMTUD need-to-frag messages for their tunnel packets) in combination with

RE: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-09 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ok, so I'll give you that tunneling a really short bit, tunneling isn't too bad, but native is most of the time better. So sad that some companies mess up in such a way that their customers rather tunnel than use their native infra... :-( The ISPs are unfortunately behind what the tunnel

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Andrews
In message CAAAwwbUbWwK09vPfLJ89HyiupP5pP7ZypBhAbM4WMhFHe-=x...@mail.gmail.com, Jimmy Hess writes: On 12/7/12, Constantine A. Murenin muren...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] It seems you have an issue with the automated system of one provider in your RIR service region.This is unusual, I

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-08 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 8 December 2012 13:03, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: It's also more than likely a hold over of IPv4 think where, generally, only companies are allocated address blocks. I would be ringing the ISP and talking to the staff escalating until you get to someone who understands the issue.

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-08 Thread Dan Luedtke
Hi, hmm, they get away with it once again. On the other hand their prices stay low. Off-topic but somehow important to me: HE has an open-peering policy (AFAIK); which basically means that tunnelbroker.net traffic is free for hetzner.de Is that true? That would be great! Regards Dan

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-08 Thread Darius Jahandarie
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Dan Luedtke m...@danrl.de wrote: Off-topic but somehow important to me: HE has an open-peering policy (AFAIK); which basically means that tunnelbroker.net traffic is free for hetzner.de Is that true? That would be great! Just because companies A and B don't

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-08 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 08, 2012, at 21:14 , Darius Jahandarie djahanda...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Dan Luedtke m...@danrl.de wrote: Off-topic but somehow important to me: HE has an open-peering policy (AFAIK); which basically means that tunnelbroker.net traffic is free for hetzner.de

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-08 Thread Owen DeLong
Frankly, the more I think about this, the less it's clear why someone like hetzner.de would actually want you to be using their native IPv6 support, instead of the one provided by HE.net through their free tunnelbroker.net service. HE has an open-peering policy (AFAIK); Yes, HE has a

Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?

2012-12-08 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 8 December 2012 16:12, Dan Luedtke m...@danrl.de wrote: Hi, hmm, they get away with it once again. On the other hand their prices stay low. Off-topic but somehow important to me: HE has an open-peering policy (AFAIK); which basically means that tunnelbroker.net traffic is free for