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Re: Broadening the IPv6 discussion

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Aug 29 16:11:32 2002

From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Mike Leber" <mleber@he.net>,
	"Irwin Lazar" <ILazar@burtongroup.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 23:08:34 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


>
> Yes, it's an gradual trend.  We are seeing and increase over time in
> active tunnels and in average traffic per tunnel.
>
Two easy things to drive v6 traffic:
1) switch your NNTP feeds to ipv6
2) put names which resolve to ipv6 addresses in your MX´s

Both of these have little or no operational hazard. (SMTP fails over to v4
gracefully)

Pete



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