[149803] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bertrand)
Wed Feb 15 23:44:25 2012
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:43:32 -0500
From: Steve Bertrand <steve.bertrand@gmail.com>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120216031208.132481D76BD5@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2012.02.15 22:12, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message<4F3C6703.4050607@gmail.com>, Steve Bertrand writes:
>> On 2012.02.15 19:55, Nathan Eisenberg wrote:
>>>> IPv6 is operational.
>>>
>>> How is this a misconception? It works fine for me...
>>
>> Imagine an operator who is v6 ignorant, with a home provider who
>> implements v6 half-assed, and tries to access a v6 site that has perhaps
>> v6-only accessible nameservers, when their provider who 'offers' v6 has
>> resolvers that operate only over v4.
>>
>> *huge* misconception about the operational status of IPv6 (imho).
>
> This doesn't prove that IPv6 is not operational. All it proves is
> people can misconfigure things. If you provide the recursive
> nameservers with IPv6 access they will make queries over IPv6 even
> if they only accept queries over IPv4.
>
> If you want to know if your resolver talks IPv6 to the world and
> supports 4096 EDNS UDP messages the following query will tell you.
>
> dig edns-v6-ok.isc.org txt
>
> Similarly for IPv4.
>
> dig edns-v4-ok.isc.org txt
Thank you :)
Steve
