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Re: Connectivity to an IPv6-only site

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Fri Apr 23 07:39:11 2010

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:38:21 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <n2g85d954181004230249vfe0baf6bn573ffca1a72e9971@mail.gmail.com>
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> Which seems a bit far afield from reality to me.  Yes, there are lots
> of folks with IPv6 connectivity and v4-only recursive DNS servers.  I
> don't think ISPs will have problems setting aside a handful of IPv4
> addresses for authoritative DNS infrastructure to work around this
> until v6 transport in recursive DNS servers is common enough.

Assuming your ISP is providing your DNS.  What if I, as a new start-up in the IPv4-exhausted world, want to buy pure bit-pipes from my ISP, and be responsible for *everything* further up the stack?  I don't believe this is entirely uncommon.

Regards,
Tim.


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