Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Andy Davidson
On 28 Jun 2007, at 18:27, John Curran wrote: At 10:16 AM -0700 6/28/07, Randy Bush wrote: Interoperability is achieved by having public facing servers reachable via IPv4 and IPv6. that may be what it looks like from the view of an address allocator. but if you actually have to delive

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Andy Davidson
On 28 Jun 2007, at 19:17, Donald Stahl wrote: The problem is twofold. First, if Google isn't going to index IPv6 content, no one cares if their content isn't available that way. That's the thing .. google's crawlers and search app runs at layer 7, v6 is an addressing system that runs at l

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On Friday 15 June 2007 00:27, Olsen, Jason wrote: > So, what practices do you folks follow? What are the up > and downsides you encounter? At my previous employer, we came up with a formula that we were happy with. For reverse DNS, it involves: * defining the interface * defining the device f

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Donald Stahl
That's the thing .. google's crawlers and search app runs at layer 7, v6 is an addressing system that runs at layer 3. If we'd (the community) got everything right with v6, it wouldn't matter to Google's applications whether the content came from a site hosted on a v4 address, or a v6 address

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Christian Kuhtz
Until there's a practical solution for multihoming, this whole discussion is pretty pointless. -- Sent from my BlackBerry. -Original Message- From: Andy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:27:33 To:Donald Stahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:00:36 BST, Alexander Harrowell said: > 1. IPv4 address space is a scarce resource and it will soon be exhausted. > > 2. It hasn't run out already due to various efficiency improvements. > > 3. These are themselves limited. > > 4. IPv6, though, will provide abundant addres

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Andy Davidson
On 29 Jun 2007, at 14:24, Donald Stahl wrote: That's the thing .. google's crawlers and search app runs at layer 7, v6 is an addressing system that runs at layer 3. If we'd (the community) got everything right with v6, it wouldn't matter to Google's applications whether the content came

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Bob Snyder
On Jun 29, 2007, at 4:51 AM, Andy Davidson wrote: I'm not saying that v6 should be binned in favour of turning off the internet when we run out of v4, but this is a non-exhaustive list of projects we all should be undertaking. Is everyone on the list working through their own list ? I'd

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Stephen Wilcox
multihoming is simple, you get an address block and route it to your upstreams. the policy surrounding that is another debate, possibly for another group this thread is discussing how v4 to v6 migration can operate on a network level Steve On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:37:23PM +, Christian Ku

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Christian Kuhtz
Amazink! Some things on NANOG _never_ change. Trawling for trolls I must be. If you want to emulate IPv4 and destroy the DFZ, yes, this is trivial. And you should go ahead and plan that migration. As you well known, one of the core assumptions of IPv6 is that the DFZ policy stay intact, ost

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
In ARIN you have a policy to request IPv6 PI. So what is the problem ? Regards, Jordi > De: Christian Kuhtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Responder a: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fecha: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:37:23 + > Para: Andy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Donald Stahl > <[EMAIL PR

RE: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Jamie Bowden
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Oberman Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:15 PM To: Stephen Wilcox Cc: John Curran; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 > Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:42:47 +010

6to4 and Teredo relays deployment

2007-06-29 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
Some weeks ago I started to work in documenting how to setup 6to4 and Teredo relays/servers in several platforms for the afripv6-discuss mailing list. There are many 6to4 relays already, but it becomes even more important to have them where the bandwidth is more expensive, because it avoids traff

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Nicolás Antoniello
steve. >multihoming is simple, you get an address block and route it to your upstreams Hey, that's a very "simplistic" IGP point of view !! I'm afraid I disagree :) On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Stephen Wilcox wrote: steve. > steve. >multihoming is simple, you get an address block and route it to y

v6 multihoming (Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6)

2007-06-29 Thread Stephen Wilcox
Hi Christian, I am not seeing how v4 exhaustion, transition to v6, multihoming in v6 and destruction ov DFZ are correlated. If you took everything on v4 today and migrated it to v6 tomoro the routing table would not grow - actually by my calculation it should shrink (every ASN would only need

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread David Conrad
Christian, On Jun 29, 2007, at 10:13 AM, Christian Kuhtz wrote: If you want to emulate IPv4 Given IPv6 is IPv4 with 96 more bits (or, if you prefer 16 more bits from the ISP perspective), why would you assume there is a choice? and destroy the DFZ, I'm not sure what "destroy the DFZ" m

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Leigh Porter
Then you get some networks who name all the routers after cheeses or characters from bill and ben the flowerpot men. -- Leigh Mark Tinka wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 00:27, Olsen, Jason wrote: So, what practices do you folks follow? What are the up and downsides you encounter?

Re: v6 multihoming (Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6)

2007-06-29 Thread Nicolás Antoniello
Hi Stephen, Supose you have STM4 links, ok? And you have 2G of trafic from your 10 ADSL customers, ok? And those STM4 go to 3 dif carriers in USA. Then, how you advertise only one IPv6 prefix to all and make the 2G go trough one STM4 ? On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Stephen Wilcox wrote: steve. > s

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Jeroen Massar
[ As it is Friday: IPv4 doomsday clock: http://penrose.uk6x.com/ ] Christian Kuhtz wrote: > If you want to emulate IPv4 and destroy the DFZ, yes, this is trivial. > And you should go ahead and plan that migration. > > As you well known, one of the core assumptions of IPv6 is that the DFZ policy >

Re: v6 multihoming (Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6)

2007-06-29 Thread Donald Stahl
If you took everything on v4 today and migrated it to v6 tomoro the routing table would not grow - actually by my calculation it should shrink (every ASN would only need one prefix to cover its current and anticipated growth). So we'll see 22 routes reduce to 25000. Even if you gave everyo

RE: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Neil J. McRae
I remember in the past an excellent system using Sesame Street characters names.

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Alexander Harrowell wrote: > > Mythic Beasts Ltd, IIRC, names their machines after, uh, mythic > beasts. Which is consistent, but not especially useful.. perhaps a decent other question is: Do I want to let the whole world know that router X with interfaces of type Y/Z/Q i

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Mythic Beasts Ltd, IIRC, names their machines after, uh, mythic beasts. Which is consistent, but not especially useful.. On 6/29/07, Leigh Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Then you get some networks who name all the routers after cheeses or characters from bill and ben the flowerpot men. --

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:35:09 BST, "Neil J. McRae" said: > I remember in the past an excellent system using Sesame Street characters > names. This only works in small shops. If you have more routers than muppets, you have a problem. Had a lab once where we named machines after colors. That hit s

Re: v6 multihoming (Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6)

2007-06-29 Thread Nicolás Antoniello
Hi Steve, Sure... I've never mention 3 STM4... the example said 3 carriers. OK, you may do it with communities, but if you advertise all in just one prefix, even with communities, I find it very difficult to control the trafic when it pass through 2 or more AS (it may be quite easy for the pee

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Jeff Shultz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:35:09 BST, "Neil J. McRae" said: I remember in the past an excellent system using Sesame Street characters names. This only works in small shops. If you have more routers than muppets, you have a problem. Had a lab once where we named machines

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:15:30 PDT, you said: > Star Trek Federation Starships... they seem to invent more daily, so no > problems running out. If your DNS is RFC3490-enabled, you can go for the Klingon and Romulan ships too. Particularly handy if you're into security through obscurity. :) pgp

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> If you have more routers than muppets, you have a problem. More muppets than routers is also a problem brandon

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Simon Leinen
Steven M Bellovin writes: > I'll give just example, using your suggestion of converting DMZ: how > do you keep your firewall rules consistent between v4 and v6 > addresses and prefixes? This is indeed a major issue in our (internal) dual-stack deployment. Our firewall rules (actually just statele

Weekly Routing Table Report

2007-06-29 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
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Re: v6 multihoming (Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6)

2007-06-29 Thread Stephen Wilcox
No, I specifically said you need to buy from upstreams who support BGP communities. You do not prepend to your upstreams but have them prepend to their peers such that you adjust which are selected to get the appropriate ratio on your inbound Steve On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 02:46:00PM -0300, Ni

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 29-jun-2007, at 17:05, David Conrad wrote: and destroy the DFZ, I'm not sure what "destroy the DFZ" means. The DFZ will get bigger, no question. Routing flux will go up. Routers will have to work harder. Router vendors will be happy. However, I'm not sure how that could be inter

Re: v6 multihoming (Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6)

2007-06-29 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Nicolás Antoniello wrote: > Hi Joel, > > To use AS path prepend when you advertise just one prefix does not solve > the problem...in this case it actually make it worth, 'cos you may find > all your trafic coming from only one of your uplinks. Sure if you overdo it... Like I said It's a fairly

Re: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Cat Okita wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote: > > perhaps a decent other question is: Do I want to let the whole world know > > that router X with interfaces of type Y/Z/Q is located in 1-wilshire. > > > > I suppose on the one hand it's helpful to know that

Re: v6 multihoming (Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6)

2007-06-29 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, [ISO-8859-1] Nicol?s Antoniello wrote: To use AS path prepend when you advertise just one prefix does not solve the problem...in this case it actually make it worth, 'cos you may find all your trafic coming from only one of your uplinks. Despite being a v6 skeptic, I'm not

Re: IPv6 & DNS

2007-06-29 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
This is one more reason, some OSs may not support IPv6 DNS transport, so you need to keep dual stack. Also, if roots/TLDs do not support yet IPv6, you will need to have at least a dual stack DNS in your network. I think in the long term we will be there, using IPv6-only in LANs, but don't see th

Re: ICANN registrar supporting v6 glue?

2007-06-29 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
What I recall from the ICANN Lisbon meeting (end of March), after the SSAC and RSSAC recommendations, is that a plan is being worked out with the root operators in order to make sure that they have the deployment done and then the hints file is modified. I believe this will not take too much time

Re: ICANN registrar supporting v6 glue?

2007-06-29 Thread Pete Templin
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: My view is that deploying only IPv6 in the LANs is the wrong approach in the short term, unless you're sure that all your applications are ready, or you have translation tools (that often are ugly), and you're disconnected from the rest of the IPv4 Internet. You're

Re: ICANN registrar supporting v6 glue?

2007-06-29 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
Because we have designed IPv6 with the view of a smooth transition AND co-existence, and that means dual-stack, at least in the end-sites. Otherwise is not *smooth* anymore, and you will find troubles, it is just a matter of time they will get resolved, of course. Regards, Jordi > De: Pete Te

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread Stephen Satchell
John Curran wrote: Steve - For the first end site that has to connect via IPv6, it will be very bad if there is not a base of IPv6 web/email sites already in place. As the network administrator for a Web hosting company, I've not seen any coherent (and useful) information about