[125811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Connectivity to an IPv6-only site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Fri Apr 23 10:57:53 2010
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:57:05 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BD159C1.2090307@ibctech.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/23/2010 03:26, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> On 2010.04.23 03:35, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>
>> >From my PC at home (Cox in Omaha) I can't even get a nameserver that
>> knows the site.
>
> Larry... let me explain why. Although you might not understand, others
> will, and you may remember this as something when you do use IPv6.
>
> Believe me, nobody can remember everything, and what I'm trying to
> achieve here is isolating easy-to-document issues.
>
> It may be above your head at this time, but my objective is to find out
> the rough edges, that net ops will be able to identify quickly when
> problems arise... much like looking for reckless filtering of ICMP on an
> IPv6 network.
It actually all makes sense (not to be confused with "I have a deep and
abiding understanding now").
>
> Why you can't get a name server... because this is how the domain is
> configured:
I started to whine about the "misleading" error message I go, but when I
did it again to copy it I see that it was a mix of not-understanding and
of thinking I did:
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>tracert onlyv6.com
> Unable to resolve target system name onlyv6.com.
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>
That doesn't say "Unable to locate a nameserver" which I would have bet
it said.
I'll go away quietly now.
Thanks for the explanation.
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