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Re: (very few) AAAA websites

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Tue Apr 17 08:56:55 2007

Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:56:02 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* cfriacas@fccn.pt (Carlos Friacas) [Tue 17 Apr 2007, 10:38 CEST]:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>> Not "major content sites", but these are some web sites with AAAA records 
>> that people may be visiting for other reasons than just IPv6 tourism:
[..]
>> www.ams-ix.net
> internet exchanges. those which see IPv6 as an "easy thing" :-)

Why would they see that any differently than any ISP?  The issues they 
run into are exactly the same as those on other networks.  IOS version 
dances, DNS has to be updated, the occasional timeouts when e.g. a 
wireless access point stops forwarding IPv6 ethertype frames, &c.


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