[2094] in SIPB IPv6
Re: use of IPv6 on campus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri Apr 14 16:39:24 2006
In-Reply-To: <qqk69rq4m3.fsf@mit.edu>
Cc: "sipbv6@MIT.EDU" <sipbv6@mit.edu>
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:39:04 -0400
To: "Darrin B.Jewell" <dbj@mit.edu>
On Apr 14, 2006, at 16:33, Darrin B.Jewell wrote:
> As an anecdotal point of reference, a while back I was in the sipb
> office using my os-x laptop configured on one of the static ipv4
> addresses, probably general-dink.mit.edu. I was having trouble
> connecting to some of the netbsd.org machines and eventually traced it
> to the fact that my machine had autoconfigured ipv6, and was trying to
> use ipv6 to get to hosts that had aaaa records in dns.
Yep, that's the one I keep bumping into as well. The route back to
our MERIT-assigned address block by way of MCI doesn't seem to get to
them... or, I suspect, a lot of other places.
Ken
