[137502] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NY Times on IPv4 depletion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Mon Feb 14 16:54:21 2011
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:19:02 MDT."
<4D597216.1030400@brightok.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:52:39 +1100
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <4D597216.1030400@brightok.net>, Jack Bates writes:
>
>
> On 2/14/2011 12:12 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> > Too bad the article pushes my mobile device to their mobile site
> > mobile.nytimes.com and that references an ipv4 literal for the picture to
> > load .... so not only is nytimes not ipv6 it is also broken for ipv6 only
> > users behind nat64 ....
>
> That's almost as bad as the hundreds of subdomains used in webpages
> which sometimes hit broken load balancers (reporting nxdomain for AAAA).
Very few do that anymore. What they do however is return the wrong SOA
record.
> So you have to check each and every domain in the source to find which
> ones are broken.
Which one really shouldn't have to do. Add DS-Lite support to the
phone and have the carriers advertise that they support DS-Lite and
the IPv4 literal problem goes away.
This has been done in a phone already so it is possible to do.
> Jack
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