[135558] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ipv6 for the content provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jan 26 15:39:40 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <ihprk2$g39$1@dough.gmane.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:33:48 -0800
To: David Freedman <david.freedman@uk.clara.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 26, 2011, at 11:10 AM, David Freedman wrote:
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>> And if your servers behind the LB aren't prepared for it, you lose a LOT
>> of logging data, geolocation capabilities, and some other things if you
>> go that route.
>>
>> Owen
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> I can't imagine an LB vendor who would sell a v6 to v4 vip solution who
> wouldn't provide a way to inject the v6 addr in to the request as an
> additional header? I suggest a naming-and-shaming is in order
>
Sure, but, if you're not prepared to parse, log, and deal with that header,
then, you lose, right?
Note I said "IF your servers behind the LB aren't prepared for it..."
Owen