[138045] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Feb 27 17:38:45 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <m28vx1r7m4.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:35:50 -0800
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 27, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>> You're going to have to perform stateless autconfiguration in ipv6
>>> and provide an ipv4 nameserver at the very minimum for a long time
>> apple is gonna look very very st00pid on world ipv6 day. and a bunch
>> of folk are considering not turning things off after that day.
>
> on second thought, guess where the support calls are gonna go. our
> customer support lines, because we deliver zipless ipv6.
>
> NOC: are you running a macintosh?
> User: yes, how did you guess?
> NOC: because it is broken. get vista.
>
> randy
While I'm as big a fan of IPv6 as anybody, I think in a comparison of
relative brokenness, Mac comes out quite favorably compared to
Vista in spite of their DHCPv6 deficiencies.
Owen
