[99411] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Sep 21 01:55:20 2007
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:54:20 -0400
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>
To: "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: "Barrett Lyon" <blyon@blyon.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <46EC3AAA.8000603@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 9/15/07, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
> [spam: Check http://www.sixxs.net/misc/toys/ for an IPv6 Toy Gallery :)]
>
> Somewhat long, hopefully useful content follows...
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> Barrett Lyon wrote:
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> Of course when there is only a A or AAAA only that protocol will be
> used. All applications are supposed to use getaddrinfo() which sorts
> these addresses per the above specification, the app should then
> connect() to them in order, fail/timeout and try the next one till it
Since when is a timeout on the Internet ok? Haven't we moved beyond
that? This is a controllable timeout. We don't have to do it, which is
the point. What's the right way to do this?
Thank you, and thank you Barret for starting the thread. :-)
-M<
