[ipv6-wg] [atlas] What to do with RIPE Atlas probes that have only a ULA as IPv6 address?
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Tim Chown
tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Mar 26 10:23:23 CET 2015
Hi, > On 26 Mar 2015, at 08:26, Benedikt Stockebrand <bs at stepladder-it.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Jen Linkova <furry13 at gmail.com> writes: > >>> So the question to the community, should RIPE Atlas treat ULAs in the >>> same way as RFC-1918, addresses that should be ignored unless a valid >>> global address can be found elsewhere. Or should we keep the current >>> approach where ULAs are treated just like other global IPv6 addresses >>> and consider the probe host's network setup to be broken? >> >> But wait, if a probe has RFC1918 addresses only you do not mark it as >> 'no v4 connectivity', right? >> If a probe has a address of a global scope (v4 or v6) but could not >> reach the outside world it means the connectivity is broken. So IMHO >> it makes slightly more sense to mark ULA-only probes as having broken >> connectivity. > > just wondering: If I use RFC1918 addresses with IPv4 I might still have > Internet access through a NAT gateway. If I have only ULA, then I may > reasonably expect there's no NAT, so there's a fundamental difference > here. > > However, I personally *do* run my stuff through a firewall setup > including application level gateways. So it might be argued that my > ULA-only devices still have (some rather limited sort of) Internet > access anyway. It would seem this is a good platform from which to see what types of connectivity devices with ULAs have, e.g. to get a guesstimate of NPTv6 deployment. Tim
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