Dear All,
Sorry for crossposting.
This proposal is the opposite with the principle how the DNS is developed
a while ago. The DNS is a highly distributed, hierarchical, autonomous,
reliable database with very useful extensions. This modification is
proposing lying about the existence of the
On Mar 30, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Mohacsi Janos wrote:
Dear All,
Sorry for crossposting.
This proposal is the opposite with the principle how the DNS is developed a
while ago. The DNS is a highly distributed, hierarchical, autonomous,
reliable database with very useful extensions. This
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:04:39AM -0700, Nicholas Weaver wrote:
His linux host would do an A and an query and, until the
query timed out, delay creating connections eg, through SSH, web
browsing, etc. An amazingly painful experience for him until he
diagnosed it.
But the answer to
On Mar 30, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
I am not among those who think that the number of clients involved
with this is insignificant. I know that something people sometimes
hear, but the abolute number of people involved does make this a real
problem. I just don't think that
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:46:07PM -0400, Edward Lewis wrote:
Why is there a need to wean people off IPv4?
Because we're about to run out of v4 addresses, according to the
people in charge of giving them out.
A
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At 13:58 -0400 3/30/10, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
Because we're about to run out of v4 addresses, according to the
people in charge of giving them out.
I've heard that before. The run out does not mean an end to the
IPv4 network. There will still be 4 billion IPv4 network addresses
(yes, a
On 30 Mar 2010, at 19:25, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
it seems like the wrong time to break a perfectly good feature (DNS
answers on v4 for a possible v6 connection).
+1
It is a very, very bad idea to couple the network protocol to the
answers given by a DNS server. The end client may well
At 11:25 -0700 3/30/10, Ted Lemon wrote:
You want to use IPv6 because:
- it has significant new features that will make things like VoIP work
better for you
Fine, that's a reason for v6 to come along. But why should I prefer
to run SSH over v6 rather than v4?
- if you can't use IPv6,
Just a point of clarification before the list moderator shuts down
this off-topic thread..
Ed's unstated assumption is that the condition being considered is
communication between two hosts that are both dual-stack. It is not
that he fails to understand that hosts that are now IPv4-only
