[125847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Connectivity to an IPv6-only site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Sat Apr 24 17:16:54 2010
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:15:07 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <14793.1272042510@localhost>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> No, the problems are probably further back in time. We first started turning up
> IPv6 back in 1997 or so. There's a *very* good chance that we turned it off a
> decade ago (or whenever people *first* started listing quad-A's in NS entries)
> due to breakage and never actually revisited it since then. This would have
> been in the era of early 6bone and "your IPv6 connection is probably tromboned
> through Tokyo".
I periodically see issues with idiotic load balancers that don't respond
to anything except A records for specific domains. This causes problems
when requesting AAAA records and delays waiting for timeouts before
going to A. newegg fixed theirs though, yipeee! :)
Jack
