[96880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Tue May 29 09:51:14 2007
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:49:44 +0100
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: "Donald Stahl" <don@calis.blacksun.org>,
"John Curran" <jcurran@istaff.org>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <F7A0B3D8-9E34-4560-9C0B-BFCF13730270@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 5/29/07, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
>
> On 29-mei-2007, at 15:21, Donald Stahl wrote:
> > The built in tunneling in Windows could be a problem so let's start
> > by using different dns names for IPv6 enabled servers-
> > mail.ipv6.yahoo.com or whatever. Can anyone think of a reason that
> > a separate hostname for IPv6 services might cause problems or
> > otherwise impact normal IPv4 users?
>
> You mean other than setting it up once, forgetting about it and then
> calling the support line when it stops working? Don't forget that
> changing mail settings isn't something you'll want to do too often
> (speaking as the owner of an IPv6 mail server and a mail client that
> won't fall back to IPv4 when IPv6 is present but doesn't work).
>
Isn't his point that y! could offer IPv6 e-mail in parallel to the
existing IPv4 service, putting the IPv6 machines in a subdomain
ipv6.yahoo.com, so that end users and networks who want to do it can
do so without bothering the others?