Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time
by roryirvine on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:29AM
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Yes, /64 is a reasonable starting point for blocking outright, but /48 is the right unit for scoring reputation.
Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time
by GoblinSlayer on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:19PM
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APNIC blog says /48 prefixes are for global routing, i.e. site=country there, not web server.
>/48 is the minimum prefix size that will be routed globally in the BGP.
Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time
by Dagger2 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:14PM
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I'm not sure if I'm misreading you, but a /48 would never be an entire country's v6 allocation.
If we're talking home networks, you can reliably expect a /48 to a) not be announced in BGP itself, and b) cover one to a few hundred users of one ISP. (The containing /32 or similar will be announced.) A business might structure its network so that one of its /48s corresponds to a country, but in that case the /48 would be covering just that business, which would be a sensible unit for reputation tracking.
Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time
by GoblinSlayer on Friday April 17, 2026 @06:31AM
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Reputation unit is /64 block, so if you want to see a 100 people ISP as one reputation unit, it should get a /64 block. But AFAIK today in practice reputation unit is a country.
Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time
by Dagger2 on Sunday April 19, 2026 @07:29AM
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Country would be far too coarse to be useful. I suspect it's more likely to be at the AS level, or /32 or somewhere around there.
I have a /48. The amount of "we have detected unusual activity from your network" messages I get from sites, when I'm reasonably sure the only activity coming from my network is my usual activity on those sites, suggests that they're using something bigger than /48.
/56 is often recommended as the minimum as for a (residential) customer. /48 is considered a "site" address prefix, and is the smallest allocation that can be advertised in BGP:
* https://blog.apnic.net/2020/06/01/why-is-a-48-the-recommende...
* https://www.infoblox.com/blog/ipv6-coe/a-48-for-every-site-a...
You get 65k subnets with it, which is what you get with 10/8.