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Re: IPv4 v IPv6

From Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: IPv4 v IPv6
Date 2019-06-18 00:50 +0200
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Hello,

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 04:11:32PM -0400, Robin Hammond wrote:
> The size of such a routing table gives me nightmares ! Thank goodness you
> have to advertise networks of a reasonably sized prefix length!

I wouldn't worry too much about the number of v6 routes. In terms of
addressing and routing policy, this second go with v6 has afforded
some chances to correct mistaken assumptions made with v4 that later
became impossible to undo.

I would worry more about the number of v4 routes. As v4 runs out
globally (already has in some regions), there is increased pressure
to carve up allocations so that they can be traded. For example, if
you look at an arbitrary v4 auction site:

    https://auctions.ipv4.global/

(I picked this from a web search and have no information about it,
so it's not an endorsement)

You see that an ARIN /24 (256 addresses) currently goes for around
$5.6k. Let's say you have a /21 but you're only using the bottom
half. At the moment your route in the global routing table is a
single /21 route. But hey, people want to buy IPs, and you have 8
/24s in your /21. You're only using 4 of them (the bottom half as I
say). So you auction the top 4 off to 4 different buyers. Now the
global routing table needs one /22, for your bottom half, and then
four /24s, so it grew by 500%.

It is not yet quite that bad because a /24 is really still a bit too
small to route. Some providers may not accept the announcement. But
as the availability goes down and the prices go up, people are going
to want to route /24s routinely.

That is on top of the number of orgs who got an allocation that
proved to be too small so they went back for an extra one, thus
doubling the number of routes.

Meanwhile in IPv6 land, Regional Internet Registries tried really
hard to give out allocations so big that very few applicants should
ever need to come back for a second one (and thereby introduce
another global route).

Cheers,
Andy

-- 
https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

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IPv4 v IPv6 mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-06-17 11:10 +0200
  Re: IPv4 v IPv6 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-17 11:20 +0200
    Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@fastmail.net> - 2019-06-17 12:30 +0200
      Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2019-06-18 09:30 +0200
  Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-06-17 12:10 +0200
    Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-17 16:40 +0200
      Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-06-17 17:00 +0200
        Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-17 18:30 +0200
        Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-17 19:00 +0200
          Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-17 19:10 +0200
            Re: SOLVED was IPv4 v IPv6 discussion that went off the rails. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-18 02:10 +0200
          Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-06-17 19:10 +0200
            Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-17 19:40 +0200
              Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-06-17 20:00 +0200
            Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-17 20:00 +0200
            Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-18 14:50 +0200
              Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-18 14:50 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-18 15:10 +0200
          Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2019-06-27 22:40 +0200
            Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-27 23:30 +0200
        Re: IPv4 v IPv6 John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-06-17 20:30 +0200
          Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-06-17 22:10 +0200
            Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Robin Hammond <rdhdroid@gmail.com> - 2019-06-17 22:20 +0200
              Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-06-18 00:50 +0200
              Re: IPv4 v IPv6 John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-06-18 04:10 +0200
          Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-18 02:20 +0200
      Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-06-17 17:40 +0200
        Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-06-18 12:00 +0200
          Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-06-18 12:40 +0200
            Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-06-18 13:50 +0200
              Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-06-18 16:20 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-18 16:50 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-06-18 18:20 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Linux Dave <mckisicd@gmail.com> - 2019-06-20 20:40 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-20 20:40 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2019-06-20 20:50 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-20 21:00 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-06-20 21:10 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-18 17:40 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-06-18 18:30 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-06-18 18:20 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-06-18 18:30 +0200
      Re: IPv4 v IPv6 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-18 18:20 +0200
        Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-06-18 18:30 +0200
          Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-18 18:40 +0200
          Re: IPv4 v IPv6 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-22 05:10 +0200
            Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-06-22 10:50 +0200
              Re: IPv4 v IPv6 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-24 20:20 +0200
            Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-06-22 21:40 +0200
              Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-22 22:50 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-06-22 23:40 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-23 02:30 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-06-23 05:00 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-23 08:30 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-06-23 11:20 +0200
              Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-06-26 20:40 +0200
                Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-06-26 21:00 +0200
    Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-06-18 11:50 +0200
      Re: IPv4 v IPv6 Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-06-21 17:30 +0200
  Re: IPv4 v IPv6 andreimpopescu@gmail.com - 2019-07-02 11:10 +0200

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