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(ngtrans) Re: 6BONE AUP
- Subject: (ngtrans) Re: 6BONE AUP
- From: [email protected] (Perry E. Metzger)
- Date: 18 Feb 1999 12:15:57 -0500
- In-reply-to: "Matt Crawford"'s message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:07:20 -0600"
- References: <[email protected]>
"Matt Crawford" <[email protected]> writes:
> One part of renumbering which hasn't been tackled, though, is
> updating filter lists (aka access lists) on routers. There are
> probably some 6bone BGP filters in place here and there which would
> take small but non-zero effort to update with each renumbering.
> Ideas, anyone?
The trick is always another layer of indirection. The DNS has provided
good names for hosts. What we need is a way to name CIDRized blocks of
addresses cleanly, so that the configurations can use names which
today point at the old addresses and tomorrow point at the new...
Perry