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IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback Address

Subject: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation for Loopback Address
From: rdobbins at arbor.net (Roland Dobbins)
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:37:28 +0700
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On Oct 11, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal at snappytelecom.net> wrote:

> I am trying to understand what is sub-optimal about doing so...Waste of Ipv6 space ? or some other technical reason ?

It's wasteful of address space, but more importantly, it turns your router into a sinkole.

> (is a /64 address are a 'sinkhole' the only reason ? )

That's a pretty big reason not to use /64s.

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