[140641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon May 16 18:46:01 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CBB58C88-50D2-4BA0-9386-54FA10F28624@muada.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 15:43:35 -0700
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 16, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 16 mei 2011, at 9:31, Owen DeLong wrote:
>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> 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.)
>=20
> It would be much better if you could go from IPv6 to IPv4 through a =
NAT64.
Meh, a very short term problem at worst.
Owen
