[162644] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 and HTTPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Sun Apr 28 03:14:30 2013
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:01:07 -0700."
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Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:14:07 +1000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <05CD8F9B-46DD-4069-9EBE-2C92FFFF210E@delong.com>, Owen DeLong writes:
>
> On Apr 26, 2013, at 9:55 PM, Jima <nanog@jima.us> wrote:
>
> > On 2013-04-26 01:29, Don Gould wrote:
> >> I agree with others that there is still way to much XP and other non
> >> supporting platforms and I suspect that by the time we get those out of
> >> the system we'll be most of the way there for IPv6 access.
> >
> > And heck, you don't even need to get rid of XP for IPv6 -- just enable
> the stack. (It's not the greatest implementation, but `ipv6 install` is
> still an easier sell than "replace your computer.")
> >
> > Jima
>
> This will work until you no longer have an IPv4 resolver available for
> DNS. After that, XP fails miserably.
No. You just need to install a caching nameserver or a simple v4/v6 relay.
Mark
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