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Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-20 13:40:35
kaih(_at_)khms(_dot_)westfalen(_dot_)de (Kai Henningsen) quotes me as saying:

therefore after a middle state of perhaps five more years, the majority
of services that anybody will want to access will be v4+v6 reachable,
and it will be realistic to consider provisioning first nat/v6 and then
nonat/v6 endhosts.

...and then adds...

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ftp.ipv6.debian.org.          AAAA    3ffe:1001:210:16::5
ftp.ipv6.debian.org.          AAAA    3ffe:8171:10:16::5
ftp.ipv6.debian.org.          AAAA    2001:708:310:54::99
ftp.ipv6.debian.org.          AAAA    2001:718:1:1:2d0:b7ff:fe46:fbb8
ftp.ipv6.debian.org.          AAAA    2001:760:202:103::4
ftp.ipv6.debian.org.          AAAA    2001:770:18:2::1:1
ftp.ipv6.debian.org.          AAAA    2001:b68:e207::3

that's nonuseful in two ways.  first, get rid of those "3ffe" things.
second, put these on the main name, don't make people use an alternate
name.  for example:

        ftp.freebsd.org has address 62.243.72.50
        ftp.freebsd.org has address 204.152.184.73
        ftp.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:0:2::e
or
        www.isc.org has address 204.152.184.88
        www.isc.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:0:2::d
or
        ftp.isc.org has address 204.152.184.110
        ftp.isc.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:0:2::18
or
        www.netbsd.org has address 204.152.190.12
        www.netbsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:4:7:2e0:81ff:fe52:9a6b

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.ipv6.microsoft.com. 3600    IN      AAAA    2002:836b:9820::836b:9886
www.ipv6.microsoft.com. 3600    IN      A       131.107.152.134

lovely addresses.  but they should be attached to www.microsoft.com, not
www.ipv6.microsoft.com.  this works fine and causes no problems for ipv4-only
hosts.  using an alternate name for ipv6 in 2004 or later is chickenhearted.
-- 
Paul Vixie

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