[140330] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon May 9 23:31:25 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110510012842.94DB2E9C03E@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 20:28:22 -0700
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Arie Vayner <ariev@vayner.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 9, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
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> In message <24499CC4-64A1-419C-AB06-08A82D535B10@delong.com>, Owen =
DeLong write
> s:
>> Well, if you're having to retransmit those intermittently, then, it =
does
>> seem you have some level of brokenness with your network, no?
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> No. The point of retransmission is to provide reliable service
> over a unreliable transport. Some level of retransmission is normal.
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>> Owen
> --=20
> Mark Andrews, ISC
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org
No, it isn't. The transport is failing if you are having to retransmit =
more than once in a blue
moon. Yes, retransmission helps overcome such failures in the transport, =
but, that does
not mean that the transport isn't broken.
Owen
