https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7526

- Mark

> On 14 May 2019, at 17:24, Amos Rosenboim <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>  
>  
> As we are trying to tighten the security for IPv6 traffic in our network, I 
> was looking for a reference IPv6 ingress filter.
> I came up with Job Snijders suggestion (thank you Job) that can be 
> conveniently found at whois -h whois.ripe.net fltr-martian-v6
>  
> After applying the filter I noticed some traffic from 6to4 addresses 
> (2002::/16) to our native IPv6 prefixes (residential users in this case).
> The traffic is a mix of both UDP and TCP but all on high port numbers on both 
> destination and source.
> It seems to me like some P2P traffic, but I really can’t tell.
>  
> This got me thinking, why should we filter these addresses at all ?
> I know 6to4 is mostly dead, but is it inherently bad ?
>  
> And if so, why is the prefix (2002::/16) still being routed ?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Amos Rosenboim
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