[140659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue May 17 11:59:27 2011
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DD2991B.6040207@netwolves.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 08:59:01 -0700
To: Steve Clark <sclark@netwolves.com>
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 8:49 AM, Steve Clark wrote:
> On 05/17/2011 08:56 AM, Paul Vixie wrote:
>>> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 11:07:17 +0200
>>> From: Mans Nilsson<mansaxel@besserwisser.org>
>>>=20
>>>>> ... It's not like you can even reach anything at home now, let =
alone
>>>>> reach it by name.
>>>> that must and will change. let's be the generation who makes it =
possible.
>>> 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
>> to be clear, the old pre-web T1 era internet did not have much =
content
>> but what content there was, was not lopsided. other than slip and =
ppp
>> there weren't a lot of networks one would call "access" and a smaller
>> number of networks one would call "content". i am not wishing for =
that,
>> i like the web, i like content, i know there will be specialized =
networks
>> for access and content. but i also think (as jim gettys does) that =
we
>> ought to be able to get useful work done without being able to reach =
the
>> whole internet all the time. that's going to mean being able to =
reach
>> other mostly-access networks in our same neighborhoods and =
multitenant
>> buildings and towns and cities, directly, and by name. it does not =
mean
>> being able to start facebook 2.0 out of somebody's basement, but it =
does
>> mean being able to run a personal smtp or web server in one's =
basement
>> and have it mostly work for the whole internet and work best for =
accessors
>> who are close by and still work even when the "upstream" path for the
>> neighborhood is down.
>>=20
> This is all very confusing to me. How are meaningful names going to =
assigned automatically?
dynamic dns updates seems like an obvious choice.
> Right now I see something like ool-6038bdcc.static.optonline.net for =
one of our servers, how does this
> mean anything to anyone else?
>=20
>=20
> --=20
> Stephen Clark
> *NetWolves*
> Sr. Software Engineer III
> Phone: 813-579-3200
> Fax: 813-882-0209
> Email: steve.clark@netwolves.com
> http://www.netwolves.com
>=20
