[118703] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Oct 27 10:44:07 2009
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:41:46 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AE70469.4000201@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jeroen Massar wrote:
> But yes, the network stack itself is a different question, then again,
> you can just route a /64 into the loopback device and let your apache
> listen there... (which also allows you to do easy-failover as you can
> move that complete /64 to a different box ;)
>
You are still comparing an application level decision to a stack level
decision. Thousands of addresses on a stack could definitely pose an
issue depending on the OS.
Jack
