[166249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: comcast ipv6 PTR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Tue Oct 15 10:56:01 2013
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:55:27 +0100 (BST)
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310151010530.89737@joyce.lan>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> My cable company assigns me a different prefix every time the modem
> reboots, about once a month, and I think that's pretty typical.
Seems pretty dismal to me. Wasn't a big win of IPv6 supposed to be that we could do things over without making all the same stupid mistakes we made in IPv4? Dynamic IPv4 assignment was always a hang-over from dial-up days when $ADDRESS_POOL_SIZE == $MODEM_POOL_SIZE < $SUBSCRIBER_BASE, coupled eventually with a restricted supply of addresses. We insisted on dragging it into the broadband world where the number of active connections is pretty much 1:1 with the number of paying subscribers; must we really drag the same old baggage into the IPv6 future?
Regards,
Tim.
