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Re: IPv6 and CDN's


From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:12:09 +0200



On 10/22/21 14:03, Jens Link wrote:

I don't think it was overlooked or forgotten. More along

"We have always done it this way", "We had problems enabling IPv6 (ages
ago)" or something else you can find on https://ipv6excuses.com/.

I think it's a combination of both... they tried back in the day, it broke, and they "parked" it for later.

When Marketing and The World were happy to see that www.insert-favorite-content-url-here.com had AAAA and IPv6 PTR records, who cared whether boring, little-known FQDN's were remembered or not.

And then, all the engineers moved on to some other gig, where they did better because, why not?

Mark.


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