On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > I just say that this option is not *very* useful, having > into account the problems that it has with link-local > addresses and so on... if you fix these problems, it's > a matter of choice, if you want to use it, just do it.
Which problems are you referring to? I still don't understand :-( > > > If I understood Stig well, he said that people was > > > turning off IPv6 because of delaying issues. Doing that is not an option > > > if you want to allow your app. to run over "IPv6 AND IPv4". If you can > > > not cope with such delays, maybe you shouldn't be using the DNS at all. > > > > Then what? Distributed hosts file? ;-) ? > > ^--^ ...(after a while)... pouting (grrrr). > > Then what ? it's not my problem, Sorry for my remark, I just could not resist. What you seemed to suggest was, "don't use DNS" without giving any reasonable alternative. That isn't really productive either :-) > I haven't switched to IPv4 because > the IPv6 resolver took a couple of extra roundtrip times. The extra roundtrip times are just the tip of the iceberg. Consider broken DNS servers, load balancers etc. out there -- which may eat your AAAA query for e.g. 10 seconds, causing a lot more delay than a couple of roundtrips. > I see another way of fixing: > > If this option is problematic, don't use it. This has been proved to work, > as a lot of applications don't use it already. As for AI_ADDRCONFIG, it's maybe not used because it hasn't really been implemented that much, maybe because it has been specified in a rather useless way (and it requires a proprietary interface between the glibc and kernel to get the addresses, such as the getaddrinfo destination address ordering as well; dst addr ordering hasn't been implemented that much either).. > You will have to give me other arguments to kill the on-link assuption. Let's keep that subject to a separate thread, (the next message). -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
