[6bone] Is minimum allocation /64 now?
Bill Manning
bmanning@ISI.EDU
Sun, 26 Oct 2003 06:34:30 -0800 (PST)
% > from this side of the fence, since there are so many discrete
% > IPs in a /64 that you are being announced, that looks like
% > a target rich environment for forged source addresses for spam.
% > but, as you point out, YMMV.
%
% Agreed, you can't relying on blacklisting specific IP's; you should instead
% blacklist whatever the customer allocation is. But that from discussion
% here could be anything from a single IP to a /48, and you don't know :)
%
% Given the RFC3041 privacy addresses will be commonly used, a sender on a
% subnet can come from any potential host address anyway.
%
% Tim
whoops! that tells me that whitelisting of specific
IP addresses (/128s) will become common by ISPs and
endusers as a spam prevention measure. In that case,
thr routing problem disappears, no? :)
--bill
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