[mirror-admin] MM 1.3.2, now with automatic network lookups

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:21:34PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> ASN lookup with IPv6 may be less useful given the desire with IPv6 to 
> keep more strict hierarchical routing.  For example, WPI's 
> 2001:468:616::/48 advertised from ASN 10326 wouldn't show up in a 
> global IPv6 routing table, since it is aggregated into Internet2's 
> 2001:468::/32 via ASN 11537.  Even if you had an Internet2 route feed, 
> you won't see WPI listed separately, because we are behind Northern 
> Crossroads, which aggregates us into 2001:468:600::/40 from ASN 10578.  
> ASN 10326 simply doesn't currently show up in a global IPv6 or 
> Internet2 IPv6 routing table.

Yuck.  Then I'm especially glad to have the netblocks lookup feature,
which takes precidence over the BGP lookup feature.  I see 12 Hosts
with IPv6 netblocks in their list, including WPI's.  Nice.

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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