[c-nsp] IPv6 RTBH next-hop (was: Re: null routing in ipv6)

Dobbins, Roland rdobbins at arbor.net
Sat Jun 12 13:49:10 EDT 2010


On Jun 13, 2010, at 12:05 AM, Oliver Gorwits wrote:

> This made me wonder whether there is a recommended (or commonly used) ipv6 next-hop for RTBH - similar to the 192.0.2.1 for IPv4.


TEST-NET for IPv4 - 192.0.2.0/24 -  is documented in RFC3330; the equivalent RFC for IPv6 is RFC5156.

According to RFC5156, the Documentation Prefix address range of 2001:db8::/32 appears to be the IPv6 equivalent of the IPv4 TEST-NET, so it would probably make sense to use this address range in the same way TEST-NET has been used for S/RTBH.

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