Chris L. Morrow wrote: [..]
vixie had a fun discussion about anycast and dns... something about him being sad/sorry about making everyone have to carry a /24 for f-root everywhere. I think there is a list of 'golden prefixes' or something, normally this is where Jeroen Massar jumps in with GRH data and pointers.
*see cue* :) 3 years ago I did a presentation about that, see http://www.sixxs.net/presentations/ and then "IPv6 Golden Networks" for various formats, it is more or less still correct actually, but some things might have changed. The "best" way IMHO to figure out what prefixes you should be carrying and what you are missing out on is to make sure you at least receive all the allocated blocks. The lucky folks who are providing a BGP feed to GRH can simply do that by checking that here: http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/dfp/ Everybody else can of course either signup or do it manually. Every prefix in DFP shows how well connected they are at least per BGP, and we assume that reachability by BGP means that you can shove packets over a link. Of course this does not show if the actual link works vice-versa, or if it is a dsl link in the middle or not ;) Should I make an explicit "Golden IPv6 Networks" list available again? For IPv4 that was moreover done for dampening reasons, I don't know if that is still needed. In effect any Golden network is more the network that is most needed by your customers anyway, as such, the full list is more accurate. As for folks wanting "IPv6 Google", http://www.google.com.sixxs.org and then you even get the Dutch version, which is quite liberal :) Any <site>.sixxs.org or <sixxs>.ipv6.sixxs.org allos you to access that <site> over IPv6. Using <sixxs>.ipv4.sixxs.org one can access IPv6 sites when on IPv4 (which I used for some time when I didn't have IPv6 connectivity at work due to firewalls which didn't work, but now they do :). Of course see http://ipv6gate.sixxs.net for more details. Greets, Jeroen