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[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] IPv6 access to K-root

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Iljitsch van Beijnum iljitsch at muada.com
Tue Aug 3 11:28:05 CEST 2004

On 3-aug-04, at 9:00, Pim van Pelt wrote:

> | Just out of curiousity.. what is at 2001:7fd::0 ?

> It's most probably a router anycast, which is the lowest possible IPv6
> address in a given segment. I've forgotten the document that specifies
> this,

RFC 3513 section 2.6.1.

> but afaik most operating systems today use it when forwarding is
> turned on.

But Real Routers (tm) don't.  :-)

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