[6bone] Neustar returns 3FFE:B80:FBE::/48 (Merit returns 3FFE:1C00::/24)

[Larry Blunk]

Ken Raeburn wrote:

>On Oct 10, 2005, at 20:31, Kevin Loch wrote:
>  
>
>>>And at the rate my employer's dealing with the legalese for a  
>>>"real"  allocation, that might almost be enough...
>>>      
>>>
>>Were you turned down by ARIN?  The requirements are very simple,
>>just know the correct answers to four trick questions:
>>    
>>
>
>No, we haven't gotten that far.  I think it's a question of having  
>lawyers review some terms that someone had expressed some concerns  
>over, and the blocking factor that it's not high enough on the  
>priority list compared to a large pile of other things that have to  
>be taken to the lawyers.  (Which reminds me, it's about time for me  
>to ping again the guy whose job it would be to ping the lawyers....)
>  
>

   You should be able to get IPv6 space from Abilene/Internet2.

>  
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>>>Is anyone else besides MIT still trying to use prefixes from the  
>>>now- defunct MERIT block 3ffe:1c00::/24?  We've got route  
>>>advertisements  for 3ffe:1ce1::/16 going out through one other  
>>>tunnel, but they don't  seem to be getting very far. :-(
>>>      
>>>
>>did you mean 3ffe:1ce1::/48?  You might ask your upstream(s)
>>if they are filtering it.  I don't see anything from 3ffe:1c00::/24
>>in my tables, nor does the sixxs looking glass.
>>    
>>
>
>Um, right, not /16.  Actually, I think ours is a /32.  Our only  
>currently working upstream is VBNS, and last I checked, they weren't  
>filtering it.  But even then I don't think it was getting to any  
>looking glass I could find.
>  
>

    It was a /48 in our old mrtd config file (although our allocations 
were on /32 boundaries).

>  
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>>Each network has it's own policy on what it accepts.  Some don't  
>>accept
>>any routes from 3ff3::/16 space.    Most of the networks we peer with
>>seem to accept anything down to /48 though at least one only accepts
>>/24|/28|/32 in 3ffe::/16 depending on the range.
>>    
>>
>
>Hm, that's annoying.  Not too surprising, though.  And no one's  
>currently advertising the MERIT /24 block, I would assume.
>  
>

    We shut down our 6bone router over a year ago (we had switched all our
production hosts to native v6 over Abilene/Internet2).

>  
>
>>  I can set up
>>a tunnel session for you if you want to see how far it gets through
>>us.  Of course I can also assign you a /48 from our space  
>>(2001:4810::/32) and you can see how far that goes through
>>your other connections.
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks, I think that might help...
>
>Ken
>  
>

   Ken,
        I take it you're okay with us returning 3ffe:1c00::/24?  


   Thanks,
     Larry Blunk
     Merit Network