[149815] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Feb 16 02:51:35 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4F3C6703.4050607@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:45:48 -0800
To: Steve Bertrand <steve.bertrand@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 15, 2012, at 6:16 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> On 2012.02.15 19:55, Nathan Eisenberg wrote:
>>> IPv6 is operational.
>>=20
>> How is this a misconception? It works fine for me...
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> *huge* misconception about the operational status of IPv6 (imho).
>=20
> Steve
By that definition, IPv4 is non-operational.
You can break anything if you try hard enough.
Owen
