Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network

[Cameron Byrne <cb.list6 () gmail com>]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins () arbor net> wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:38 AM, ML wrote:
>
> > At least not without some painful rebuilds of criticals systems which have these IPs deeply embedded in their 
> > configs.
>
> They shouldn't be using IP addresses in configs, they should be using DNS names.  Time to bite the bullet and get 
> this fixed prior to their eventual forced migration to IPv6.

Somebody should tell the nytimes.com about this being a bad practice,
many of their images are linked to ip addresses directly and will
certainly fail in the future (this year, mobile) networks that will
use NAT64/DNS64.  I am sure users will find other places to view their
news when nytimes.com fails to work in these ipv6-only networks.

Small summary of the problem of IPv4 literals and how they will break
in certain IPv6 environments that will be deployed this year
http://groups.google.com/group/ipv4literals

Cameron
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> Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid, with millions
> of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but
> just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
>
>                          -- Alan Kay