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Re: IPv6 Confusion


From: Nathan Ward <nanog () daork net>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:07:06 +1300

On 18/02/2009, at 3:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote:

I find it a shame that NAT-PT has become depreciated

the ietf has recanted and is hurriedly trying to get this back on
track.  of course, to save face, the name has to be changed.

Sort of - except it is only for IPv6 "clients" to connect to named IPv4 "servers". NAT-PT allowed for the opposite direction, IPv4 "clients" connecting to IPv6 "servers" - NAT64 does not.

The server must have an A record in DNS, and the client must use that name to connect to - just like NAT-PT.

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Nathan Ward



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