[125801] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Connectivity to an IPv6-only site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Apr 23 09:40:36 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <n2g85d954181004230249vfe0baf6bn573ffca1a72e9971@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:34:43 -0700
To: davehart_gmail_exchange_tee@davehart.net
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Apr 23, 2010, at 2:49 AM, Dave Hart wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:26 UTC, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> wrote:
>> - in WHOIS, I have ns1 and ns2.onlyv6.com listed as the authoritative
>> name servers
>>
>> - both of these servers *only* have IPv6 addresses
>
> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave Hart
It is likely a bit far from immediate future reality, but, i think it is a
worth while exercise.
Bottom line, if your ISP's resolvers cannot issue queries over IPv6,
that is a problem that is relatively easy for them to solve. It is worth
putting pressure on your ISP to solve that problem.
Owen
