(ngtrans) Re: 6BONE AUP

[Michael P. Burton]

I'm awefully new to the IPv^ ballgame, but isn't there leeway for
dual-homing on the same interface to ease transition from one
prefix to another?

On 18 Feb 1999, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

|
|"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
|


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Michael P. Burton                                         Member:DNRC