[143518] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Thu Aug 11 13:32:55 2011
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Mark Newton'" <newton@internode.com.au>,
"'Cameron Byrne'" <cb.list6@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:31:23 -0500
Cc: 'NANOG' <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: frnkblk@iname.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
This same Vendor C wants us to upgrade our 7206VXR's to ASR1K's just so we
have the (hopefully working) IPv6 features in IOS-XE that are broken in
12.x.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Newton [mailto:newton@internode.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 10:12 PM
To: Cameron Byrne
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: IPv6 end user addressing
On 11/08/2011, at 12:30 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> Finally a useful post in this thread. Good work on the deployment of real
ipv6!
>
Thanks. And thanks to Vendor-C for helping us through it. The IPv6
Broadband
featureset on the ASR platform starting from IOS-XR 3.1 is a vast
improvement
on its predecessors.
Biggest hassle with IPv6 in production right now: DNS support is woefully
undercooked. I don't think anyone has put anywhere near as much effort into
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
problem
domain to focus their efforts on, DNS would be da shiznit.
- mark
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