(ngtrans) Re: 6BONE AUP

[Perry E. Metzger]

"Matt Crawford" <crawdad@fnal.gov> writes:
> One part of renumbering which hasn't been tackled, though, is
> updating filter lists (aka access lists) on routers.  There are
> probably some 6bone BGP filters in place here and there which would
> take small but non-zero effort to update with each renumbering.
> Ideas, anyone?

The trick is always another layer of indirection. The DNS has provided 
good names for hosts. What we need is a way to name CIDRized blocks of 
addresses cleanly, so that the configurations can use names which
today point at the old addresses and tomorrow point at the new...

Perry