[172393] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Jun 17 21:02:33 2014
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From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <FF53DAF3-4C75-406A-BFD3-B64DEDA93290@delong.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:00:47 -0400
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Jun 17, 2014, at 8:46 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> One could make a valid argument that this is no worse than systems =
with misconfigured IPv4 who cannot reach Google at all even if they =
don't publish AAAA records because their IPv4 is so badly misconfigured =
that it doesn't work either. I suspect it may well be approximately the =
same fraction of systems, though it may take longer to notice/resolve =
the IPv6 issues than the IPv4 ones.
At the last RIPE i had some troubles with my IPv4 while my IPv6 worked =
fine. Folks internally grumbled about fixing IPv6 hosts because those =
with IPv6 are in the minority, but that is a diminishing view and =
honestly people who keep repeating that will slowly undercut themselves =
out of relevance.
- jared=
