[arin-ppml] IPv6 /32 minimum for extra-small ISP

Steve Bertrand steve at ibctech.ca
Wed Apr 14 18:21:11 EDT 2010


On 2010.04.14 16:56, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> On 2010.04.14 16:51, michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:
>>
>>> There are these things called "looking glasses" you can find 
>>> them at traceroute.org and when you log in to them you will 
>>> see that BGP propagation is pretty much world-wide.  It's a 
>>> pretty amazing thing, this Internet network.
>>
>> Oh yeah? And where might one find these "looking glass" thingies?
> 
> Do these count?:
> 
> acct-dev: ISP % telnet route-views.routeviews.org
> Trying 2001:468:d01:33::80df:3367...
> Connected to route-views.routeviews.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.

To fix my own post, I believe that I implied that routeviews.org was v4
only when I said this:

> or, for v6:
> 
> http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/lg/

That isn't the case. route-views.routeviews.org provides both v4 and v6
(as is probably evident in my vty connection above).

What I meant to say was:

or, *web-based* for v6:

http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/lg/

Point is, there are still very, very reliable looking glasses. Kudos to
you all who maintain them.

Steve



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