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On Jan 30 2002 13:48 +0100, Jollino wrote:
> > Well, I am not sure where you are (Italy?)
> yep, italy
>
> > and haven't looked into
> > this, but I figured I might provide you some feedback on how I have
> > things set up. I have an IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel to UUNet UK, a /48 (which
> > is 2^16 = 65,536 times a /64), and did not have to provide company
> > information to get either. It is going to be used for a company at
> > some point in the future but right now my main objective is to learn
> > to handle this.
> which is quite the same as what i need too. does uunet uk allow reverse
> dns too?
Yes, they do (and I even believe that I read once that working reverse
DNS is compulsary for those running public/globally accessible IPv6
networks):
[michael@varg michael]$ dig -n -x 2001:600:101f:: ns
; <<>> DiG 9.2.0 <<>> -n -x 2001:600:101f:: ns
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 28048
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, udp= 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.f.1.0.1.0.0.6.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.int. IN NS
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
f.1.0.1.0.0.6.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.int. 900 IN SOA varg.mcpoolen.se.
hostmaster.mcpoolen.se. 2002012900 7200 1800 1209600 900
;; Query time: 333 msec
;; SERVER: 213.88.238.194#53(213.88.238.194)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 30 18:54:54 2002
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 163
[michael@varg michael]$
> > database (whois.6bone.net): a person, a maintainer, and an "ipv6-site"
> > object. To get the latter you need an ASN, but you can use a private
> > one.
> ok, i'm lost here. i have successfully created the person object
> (DN3-6BONE) and the mantainer object (MNT-JOLLINO), but i have no clue
> about the ipv6-site one. and, what is an ASN?
> i never really ever dug into these "burocratic" stuff...
An Autonomous System Number, or ASN, as far as I have understood it is
an identifier used in the routing tables to be able to tell what
should go where. You don't need to obtain one (which I imagine might
be quite difficult these days given that there is only a 16-bit space
available) but can use a private one. I'm using 65000 since that one
is in the private range and I do not have any ASN of my own.
You'll need to create an ipv6-site object (if you need an example of
what one can look at, you can take a look at mine at
http://whois.6bone.net/cgi-bin/whois?WOLFPACK ). Most of the field
names are fairly self explanationary, and there is documentation
available in case you need it. Just don't fill out any prefix field to
start with if you want your new ISP (UUnet, or whoever) to assign one
to you. That helps make things more clear. You can always fill it in
afterwards (that's what I did).
> personally, i'd need a single subnet for my own tests, but since we hope
> to provide ipv6 connectivity for our irc network when the new
> ipv6-capable release of the deamon will come out (which should be within
> summer 2002), maybe a /48 would be better: right now i'd play with it,
> and then we wouldn't need any other registrations or anything, just an
> internal reroute.
> i have written to cselt.it using their online form for a subnet request
> on saturday, but i haven't received any reply. and they did -not- ask
> for any whois entries.
> anyhow, could you please tell me something about the ipv6-site and ASN?
>
> thanks a lot
> Daniele
I don't see why you would need two subnets for that. If you want to
run traffic internally as well (analogous to RFC 1918 IPv4 addresses),
you can and even should use the FEC0::/10 prefix, which is site local.
I tried a few ISPs closer geographically but after a week or so
considered them to have dropped the issue. Who knows what it'd mean if
they take one week to respond to a request in terms of response time
if something fails? Completely unacceptable. UUnet responded within a
few days, and I wrote them over a weekend so I was very impressed with
their response time (basically instantaneous).
Hope this helps,
Michael Kj�rling
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