[97167] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Stahl)
Mon Jun 4 00:16:01 2007
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 00:11:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Igor Gashinsky <igor@gashinsky.net>,
Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>,
Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <16480.1180917828@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> If I read the thread so far correctly, Igor can't enable a single server
> with v6, because the instant he updates the DNS so an MX for his domain
> references a AAAA, that will become the preferred target for his domain
> from the entire IPv6 world, and he's gonna need a load balancer from Day 0.
This was the whole point in using a separate domain name so that this
wouldn't happen. Having said that- I suspect every user in the current v6
Internet could hit his site and still not overwhelm a single server :)
There simply aren't that many of us :)
-Don
