[96970] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Advertisements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Tue May 29 20:41:19 2007
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 00:28:04 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <465C7BCA.4050501@psg.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 29 May 2007, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any horror stories about deploying v6?
>
> not horror, just had to back off.
>
> small site. so public servers provide multiple and diverse services.
> if a hostname has a v6 address, then all services must be v6 capable
> because clients do not retry the A record.
what's interesting is some applications on the same platform reacting
differently :( Safari works 'fine' but mail.app is 'broken' for some
corner cases of v4/v6 naming/capabilities. Iljitsch pointed out mail.app,
I've filed atleast one bug with apple... I'm positive there are others as
well.
