On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Randy Bush wrote:
unless there is a reason why that host should not be using v6
services, hmm?
because it works now?
not unless we are waiting for a zone refresh.
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @partybus ietf.org AAAA
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55312
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ietf.org. IN AAAA
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ietf.org. 3590 IN SOA ns.ietf.org.
action.CNRI.Reston.VA.US. 2003071402 3600 600 2400000 86400
;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.100.1#53(partybus)
;; WHEN: Sun Aug 24 00:46:21 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 89
v6 has one salient feature, more address space.
well, the hex addresses are nice too, from a security standpoint.
religious selling
does not help the case for v6. make it work simply and directly,
not through 42 hacks. get router, dsl, ... vendors to support it.
then it will be used.
mine works because of 1 hack:)
randy
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