IPv6 addresses for Exchange Points
Gert Doering, Netmaster netmaster at space.net
Thu May 10 15:49:13 CEST 2001
Hi,
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:02:45PM +0200, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
> => PS: btw, who is going to do revDNS for those prefixes?
> =
> =The IX themself
>
> 'course - but then their (IPv6) prefix must be routed, or they have to
> obtain/use addresses from (one of) their members (which sounds like the
> thing they want to avoid in the first place?) or buy connectivity or
> service form somewhere. Can be done, of course!
Indeed, good point. But they need connectivity for things like member
mailing lists, www servers etc. anyway - which does not mean that those
services have to (or even "should") be located at the IX itself, in the
same IP prefix.
Gert Doering
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