[152263] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Automatic IPv6 due to broadcast
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Mon Apr 23 00:32:40 2012
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:32:04 -0700
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: carlos@lacnic.net
In-Reply-To: <4F8D2BC9.20708@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/17/12 01:37 , Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote:
> I don't understand why a problem with a tunnel 'leaves a bad taste with
> IPv6'. Since when a badly configured DNS zone left people with a 'bad
> taste for DNS', or a badly configured switch left people with 'a bad
> taste for spanning tree' or 'a bad taste for vlan trunking' ?
>
> It seems to me that what are perceived as operational mistakes and/or
> plain lack of knowledge for some technologies is perceived as a fault of
> the protocol itself in the case of IPv6.
rogue dhcp servers are sufficiently common that tools had to be
developed to address their existence and they're still a nuisance after
all that.
> People need to get their acts together.
indeed.
