On Saturday February 2 2008, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 2 feb 2008, at 11:42, Thomas Kühne wrote: > > I took a DMOZ[1] dump > > What's a DMOZ dump?
DMOZ: http://www.dmoz.org/about.html # The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited # directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global # community of volunteer editors. A DMOZ dump is the complete data set including directory structure, links and descriptions. I've use this source because other lists are either too small or contain a lot of spam. > > IPv6 failure rates of 4.3% (TLD) and 6.1% (NS) > > What does TLD and NS mean? TLD: Top Level Domain (e.g. .com, .us. org) NS: Name Server - in this case Domain Name Server (DNS) > > 43 : broadcast address > > ? Sorry, the same error message is also triggered by some firewalls. > Another factor is that with IPv4, you need to be pragmatic, because if > you don't, you have no connectivity. With IPv6, you can impose > arbitrary restrictions as much as you want, because IPv4 makes sure > there is always fallback connectivity anyway. Maybe, but the most frequently encountered errors were time outs and those usually degrade performance drastically. Thomas