[99415] 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 07:39:05 2007
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:29:52 -0400
From: "Martin Hannigan" <hannigan@gmail.com>
To: "Mark Andrews" <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200709211111.l8LBBf12076637@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 9/21/07, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> wrote:
>
> In article <2d106eb50709202254q6f4ea4b7v6beda6deee5f7143@mail.gmail.com> you write:
> >
> >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...
> >>
> >> Barrett Lyon wrote:
> >> [..]
> >
> >[ clip ]
> >
> >> 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?
>
> You mean to say you get 100% connectivity with IPv4?
I mean to say that I don't willingly set out to deliver < 100%.
