[99292] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Sun Sep 16 02:41:13 2007
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:39:54 -0400
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>
To: "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5C929A0E-4126-40D8-835C-799353EEED54@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 9/15/07, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
> On 15-sep-2007, at 21:25, Barrett Lyon wrote:
>
> > The other thought that occurred to me, does FF/Safari/IE have any
> > ability to default back to v4 if v6 is not working or behaving
> > badly? This could be a helpful transition feature but may be more
> > trouble than it's worth.
>
> Browsers are pretty good at falling back on a different address in
> general / IPv4 in particular when the initial try doesn't work,
"Pretty good" as in there is a browser standard to poke for v6 then v4
or is this a stack behavior?
-M<
