[137095] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 - a noobs prespective
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Feb 9 13:38:36 2011
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:37:31 -0500
To: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Franck Martin <franck@genius.com> wrote:
> From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
>> The thing that terrifies me about deploying IPv6 is that apps
>> compatible with both are programmed to attempt IPv6 before IPv4.
>> [...] is going to break again. And again. And again.
>
> This is dual stack, my recommendation is disable
> IPv6 on your servers (so your clients will still talk to
> them on IPv4 only), and let your client goes IPv6 first.
> Once you understand what is happening, get on IPv6
> on your servers.
That advice reminds me of a limerick I once heard:
A host is a host
>From coast to coast
And nobody talks to a host that's close
Unless the host that isn't close
Is busy, hung or dead.
Thanks, but it doesn't really speak to the problem I fear.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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