[97709] in North American Network Operators' Group
IPv6 & DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Fri Jun 29 13:30:03 2007
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:19:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E674D6C6-2DDE-49F0-BE4D-FA5FB111C840@blyon.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
--- Barrett Lyon <blyon@blyon.com> wrote:
> I don't see any v6 glue there... Rather than having
> conversations
> about transition to IPv6, maybe we should be sure it
> works natively
> first? It's rather ironic to think that for v6 DNS
> to work an
> incumbent legacy protocol is still required.
Consider that Windows XP (and server 2k3) will not,
under any circumstance, send a DNS request over IPv6,
and yet they were widely considered "IPv6 compliant."
Consider also how long it took to get a working way of
telling autoconfigured hosts about which DNS servers
to use (without manually entering 128-bit addresses).
To me, the above show that the bulk of the actual
deployments were in dual-stack or tunnel environments,
and greenfield implementations were few and far
between. There's a surprising amount of unexplored
"here be dragons" territory in IPv6, given how long
some very smart people have been working on it.
-David Barak
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