On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Job Snijders <job@instituut.net> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:44:18AM +0200, Job Snijders wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 05:34:49PM -0500, Jonathan Stewart wrote:
> > This page describes an IPv4 route-server:
> > https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/wikis/Simple_route_server
> >
> > I like the function avoid_martians(), and use it (mine's even been
> > expanded a bit). I'd like to implement something similar for IPv6.
>
> here you go:
>
>     function avoid_martians()
>     prefix set martians;
>     {
>         martians = [
>             0000::/8{8,128}, 0200::/7{7,128}, 2001::/32{32,128},
>             2001:db8::/32{32,128}, 2002::/16{16,128}, 3ffe::/16{16,128},
>             5f00::/8{8,128}, fc00::/7{7,128}, fe80::/10{10,128},
>             fec0::/10{10,128}, ff00::/8{8,128} ];
>         if net ~ martians then return true;
>         return false;
>     }

The above is not complete, but you get the gist of it, here is a more
current overview in BIRD format:

    0000::/8{8,128},        # loopback, unspecified, v4-mapped
    0064:ff9b::/96{96,128}, # IPv4-IPv6 Translat. [RFC6052]
    0100::/8{8,128},        # reserved for Discard-Only Address Block [RFC6666]
    0200::/7{7,128},        # Reserved by IETF [RFC4048]
    0400::/6{6,128},        # Reserved by IETF [RFC4291]
    0800::/5{5,128},        # Reserved by IETF [RFC4291]
    1000::/4{4,128},        # Reserved by IETF [RFC4291]
    2001::/32{33,128},      # Teredo prefix [RFC4380]
    2001:0002::/48{48,128}, # Benchmarking [RFC5180]
    2001:0003::/32{32,128}, # Automatic Multicast Tunneling [RFC7450]
    2001:10::/28{28,128},   # Deprecated ORCHID [RFC4843]
    2001:20::/28{28,128},   # ORCHIDv2 [RFC7343]
    2001:db8::/32{32,128},  # NON-ROUTABLE range to be used for documentation purpose [RFC3849]
    2002::/16{17,128},      # 6to4 prefix [RFC3068]
    3ffe::/16{16,128},      # used for the 6bone but was returned [RFC5156]
    4000::/3{3,128},        # Reserved by IETF [RFC4291]
    5f00::/8{8,128},        # used for the 6bone but was returned [RFC5156]
    6000::/3{3,128},        # Reserved by IETF [RFC4291]
    8000::/3{3,128},        # Reserved by IETF [RFC4291]
    a000::/3{3,128},        # Reserved by IETF [RFC4291]
    c000::/3{3,128},        # Reserved by IETF [RFC4291]
    e000::/4{4,128},        # Reserved by IETF [RFC4291]
    f000::/5{5,128},        # Reserved by IETF [RFC4291]
    f800::/6{6,128},        # Reserved by IETF [RFC4291]
    fc00::/7{7,128},        # Unique Local Unicast [RFC4193]
    fe80::/10{10,128},      # Link Local Unicast [RFC4291]
    fec0::/10{10,128},      # Reserved by IETF [RFC3879]
    ff00::/8{8,128}         # Multicast [RFC4291]

Job, this looks great! I'll incorporate this for sure.

I really like your longer list with comments.  Helps to remind the operator why these prefixes are special.

I want to ask a question: do any of these rules define an overall prefix length accepted?  A statement like "accept a /8 to a /48"?  How would i write this type of rule?

Cheers,
Jonathan