[140632] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Mon May 16 04:57:32 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <91DA9423-7BCB-4874-A19C-B91BA34DFBA3@delong.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:56:34 +0200
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 16 mei 2011, at 9:31, Owen DeLong wrote:
> I believe that the BitTorrent clients
> are smart enough to discard the IPv4 nodes reached through NAT64 and =
will, instead, just
> use the native IPv6 nodes. I don't see this as a problem and I"m not =
sure why you do.
Because that way the IPv4 and IPv6 swarms remain disconnected in the =
absence of some dual stack peers. (I.e., if the swarm is small and =
you're the only IPv6 participant.)
It would be much better if you could go from IPv6 to IPv4 through a =
NAT64.=
