On 8 December 2012 13:03, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
It's also more than likely a hold over of IPv4 think where, generally, only companies are allocated address blocks. I would be ringing the ISP and talking to the staff escalating until you get to someone who understands the issue. Also a /64 is ridiculously small for a company and it really too small for individuals so it very much looks like this ISP hasn't applied enough thought to this area. Trail blazing is hard work but someone has to do it.
This might be a good advice for a home or an office obtaining internet connectivity with a dynamic IP address or at a location remote from an he.net POP. However, it's not something that I am, as an individual renting a single server at a great price and only 5ms from Frankfurt, an HE.net POP, is willing to go through. Why go through all the hoops where HE's tunnelbroker.net already provides the same service, but with shorter addresses and better latency, and without any self-made RIPE-blamed headaches and extra rules? Also, specifically in regards to hetzner.de, if I'd like to switch from one of their servers to another, a tunnelbroker.net-issued address will let me have a seamless "failover", whereas a native IPv6 /64 from hetzner.de might have to be given up and obtained anew (and one might again have to go through all the hoops in order to obtain a new one). I've tried contacting their support through their web-interface, but they've repeatedly claimed that I've agreed to have my data provided to RIPE. ??? But then, again, I don't speak any German; and they, obviously, have to minimise their costs by a great deal of automation in order to keep their prices low. At this point, I don't see a single good reason of why I should continue bothering them, instead of simply using what already works great -- tunnelbroker.net. Frankly, the more I think about this, the less it's clear why someone like hetzner.de would actually want you to be using their native IPv6 support, instead of the one provided by HE.net through their free tunnelbroker.net service. HE has an open-peering policy (AFAIK); which basically means that tunnelbroker.net traffic is free for hetzner.de, whereas for native IPv6 traffic they might have to be paying for transit costs, depending on the destination. HE.net probably wins, too; since being the place-to-go-for-IPv6 might make it easier for them to have more settlement-free peering with big transit providers such as AT&T (Bay-Area-wise, they still have IPv6 traffic going through their peering in Los Angeles). C.