[mdlug] OT: the great IPv6 debate
Dan Pritts
danno at umich.edu
Tue Apr 27 13:29:36 EDT 2010
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 07:07:36PM -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Dan Pritts wrote:
> > the problem is not borked DNS; it is not at the server or at the client
> > site. The problem is some broken network, somewhere in the middle.
> >
> > Yes, someone somewhere screwed up; yes, they should fix it. yes,
> > i should complain (and i do!). all that said, this is to be expected
> > in this transitional phase. Having application software that
> > exacerbates the problem just makes users want to turn off v6.
> >
>
> And if IPv4 was screwed up in the middle, the same problems
> would occur. Otherwise, we could all just put random numbers
> in, and networking would still work.
"this is to be expected in this transitional phase."
back in 1989, IPv4 got screwed up in the middle a lot more than it
does now. We didn't have anything else then, but today, deploying
ipv6, we have a pretty reliable ipv4 internet.
danno
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