IPv6 Buzz 061: Weird And Wacky IPv6 Addressing

In this week’s episode Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about some of the weird things they’ve seen folks do with IPv6 addresses. IPv6 is different than IPv4 in many ways but the endless supply of IPv6 addresses yields endlessly crazy ways to use them.
Topics discussed include:

* Creative (and “creative”) use of IPv6 addresses
* Is an IPv6 link-local address prefix a /10 or a /64?
* Organizations using ULA badly
* The use of IPv6 addresses and prefixes (valid and otherwise) in vendor documentation
* How the extensibility of the IPv6 protocol leads to other creative approaches to communications

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Show Links:
IANA Reserved IPv6 Address Ranges – IANA
IPv6 Documentation Prefix – IETF
6Bone – IETF
RFC 3701 – IETF
Always on visibility: In-band OAM for IPv6 – Cisco Live (PDF)
Encapsulations for In-situ OAM Data – IETF
IPv6 Performance Measurements – DoH – IETF
Bringing Segment Routing and IPv6 together – Cisco
Your Hosts:

* Tom Coffeen @ipv6tom
* Scott Hogg @scotthogg
* Ed Horley @ehorley