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0 pointsDagger224d ago0 comments

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.

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GoblinSlayer24d ago

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.

Dagger2OP22d ago

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.

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GoblinSlayer24d ago

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.

Dagger2OP22d ago

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.

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