[6bone] RE: Awareness of breaking RFC3056 with 6to4 more specifics

Antonio Querubin tony@lava.net
Sat, 13 Sep 2003 15:35:32 -1000 (HST)


On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> Antonio Querubin [mailto:tony@lava.net] wrote:
> 
> [cut off long list of people, except ml's]
> 
> > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > 
> > > 2002:c058:6301::/48	192.88.99.1/32	AS786
> > 
> > > 192.88.99.1/32 is *THE* anycast address, it is *NOT* routable....
> > > And you don't own it either, please read RFC3068 and stop that
> > > foolish announcement. In whois.ripe.net this network is documented:
> > 
> > Whoa there!  Just because a block is anycast doesn't mean it's NOT
> > routable.  It just means there may be multiple destinations 
> > and multiple routes to those destinations.  Otherwise what use is it?
> 
> It's for making 2002::/16 reachable, not for making the IPv4 version
> reachable over IPv6 ;)

Oops.  I thought you were advocating that 192.88.99.0 should never be
announced.  Sorry for the misunderstanding :)