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Re:Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout by iso1631 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:07PM (#46544307)
n ipv4 /32 is roughly equivalent to an ipv6 /56 or /64

You'd typically block an AS - i.e. every IP originating from AS12345. That's just as easy on v6 as v4.

Re:Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout by bert64 on Saturday January 10, 2026 @12:06PM (#46567507)
Only legacy address space is frequently bought and sold, so it moves between AS#s a lot and is also heavily fragmented.

With v6 this is not the case, a given AS# will typically have a single large allocation and can make it larger if they need to, it won't be sold and moved and an entity can't trade it in to get a different allocation.