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Re: Yahoo and IPv6
From: Jim Gettys <jg () freedesktop org>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:37:46 -0400
On 05/14/2011 07:39 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
I don't believe it is currently viable for any but the hackers out there, given my experience during the Comcast IPv6 trial. Typing V6 addresses (much less remembering them) is a PITA.Jim Gettys<jg () freedesktop org> writes:... we have to get naming squared away. Typing IPv6 addresses is for the birds, and having everyone have to go fuss with a DNS provider isn't a viable solution.perhaps i'm too close to the problem because that solution looks quite viable to me. dns providers who don't keep up with the market (which means ipv6 and dnssec in this context) will lose business to those who do.
You are asking people who don't even know DNS exists, to bother to establish another business relationship (or maybe DNS services might someday be provided by their ISP).
If you get past that hurdle they get to type long IPv6 addresses into a web page they won't remember where it was the year before when they did this the last time to add a machine to their DNS.
The way this "ought" to work for clueless home users (or cluefull users too, for that matter) is that, when a new machine appears on a network, it "just works", by which I mean that a globally routeable IPv6 address appears in DNS without fussing around using the name that was given to the machine when it was first booted, and that a home user's names are accessible via secondaries even if they are off line. And NXDOMAIN should work the way it was intended, for all the reasons you know better than I.
This is entirely possible ;-). Just go ask Evan Hunt what he's been up to with Dave Taht recently....
- Jim Right now, IPv6 is worse than IPv4 for home users; we need
Current thread:
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6, (continued)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Marshall Eubanks (May 14)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Paul Vixie (May 14)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 William Herrin (May 14)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Robert Bonomi (May 14)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Valdis . Kletnieks (May 14)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 John Levine (May 14)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Firsthand (May 15)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Marshall Eubanks (May 14)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Iljitsch van Beijnum (May 14)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Jim Gettys (May 14)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Paul Vixie (May 14)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Jim Gettys (May 16)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Paul Vixie (May 16)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Mark Andrews (May 16)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 David Miller (May 16)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Owen DeLong (May 16)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Paul Vixie (May 16)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Mark Andrews (May 16)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Mans Nilsson (May 17)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Owen DeLong (May 17)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Matthew Kaufman (May 17)
- Re: Yahoo and IPv6 Iljitsch van Beijnum (May 17)