[143489] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Wed Aug 10 23:12:21 2011
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:11:45 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAD6AjGQX9d51eHKFKi8ZG7VG1r26vit7MyT=3rDDOm-3rDAtmg@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 11/08/2011, at 12:30 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> Finally a useful post in this thread. Good work on the deployment of rea=
l ipv6!
>=20
Thanks. And thanks to Vendor-C for helping us through it. The IPv6 Broadba=
nd
featureset on the ASR platform starting from IOS-XR 3.1 is a vast improveme=
nt
on its predecessors.
Biggest hassle with IPv6 in production right now: DNS support is woefully=
=20
undercooked. I don't think anyone has put anywhere near as much effort int=
o
making it fluid, user-friendly, and automated. Simple questions like, "How
are reverse mappings supposed to work when you can't predict an end-user's
address?" have no good answer. If any systems folks want a nice meaty prob=
lem
domain to focus their efforts on, DNS would be da shiznit.
- mark
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