[140655] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue May 17 08:27:24 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110517090717.GO17325@besserwisser.org>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 05:25:29 -0700
To: Mans Nilsson <mansaxel@besserwisser.org>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 17, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Mans Nilsson wrote:
> Subject: Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Date: Tue, May 17, 2011 at 04:22:54AM =
+0000 Quoting Paul Vixie (vixie@isc.org):
>>> From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:12:27 -0700
>>>=20
>>> ... It's not like you can even reach anything at home now, let alone
>>> reach it by name.
>>=20
>> that must and will change. let's be the generation who makes it =
possible.
>=20
> I'd like to respond to this by stating that I support this fully, but
> I'm busy making sure I can reach my machines at home from the IPv6
> Internet. By name. ;-)=20
I think my statement has been taken out of context and misunderstood.
I was responding to a claim that having to understand DNS to reach your
IPv6 boxes by name was somehow a step backwards from IPv4.
My point was that at least in IPv6, you can reach your boxes whereas =
with
IPv4, you couldn't reach them at all (unless you used a rendezvous =
service
and preconfigured stuff).
To me, pre-configuring DNS through the web interface for one of the free
DNS services with the IPv6 address is not any more difficult than =
setting
up one of the rendezvous services (most of which you have to pay for
if you want any real utility).
To my mind, IPv6 is a giant leap forward here, not a step backwards.
At least you can reach your stuff, even if the administration of the =
naming
process isn't 100% automated and perfect just yet.
Owen
