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Re: Moving forward on Site-Local and Local Addressing

2003-08-14 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:06:55 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote: > > Please respond to the list with your preference Sigh. A. ["But where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns. Well, maybe next year." -- Stephen Sondheim] IETF IPn

Re: Real life scenario - requirements (local addressing)

2003-08-11 Thread Rob Austein
At Thu, 07 Aug 2003 14:25:18 +1000, Andrew White wrote: > Keith Moore wrote: > > > it's far easier to filter global addresses than to filter local ones. > > *boggle* Am I the only one that finds this claim nonsensical? I wouldn't phrase it as Keith did, but I think that I end up in the same pla

Re: Proposal for site-local clean-up

2002-11-12 Thread Rob Austein
What Brian C., Margaret, Brian H., Pekka, Mike, Jim, Alain, Ralph, Keith, and Mark said, but not what Brian Z. said :). IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP a

Re: Limiting the Use of Site-Local

2002-10-31 Thread Rob Austein
At Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:14:44 -0800, Tony Hain wrote: > > ...I think I have simply been focused on defending a discussion > settled so long ago that most of the interested parties have assumed > it is done and they don't need to stay engaged. Since a check of the mailing list archive shows that th

Re: Limiting the Use of Site-Local

2002-10-30 Thread Rob Austein
At Wed, 30 Oct 2002 19:46:22 -0800, Michel Py wrote: > > There's been a lot of noise here lately, without real reasons, and it > has not produced much results either. You can call a concrete proposal to eliminate a chunk of unnecessary router complexity "noise" if you like, but I'll have to disag

Re: Default site-local behavior for routers

2002-10-30 Thread Rob Austein
What Ole said. IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMA

Re: Limiting the Use of Site-Local

2002-10-30 Thread Rob Austein
At Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:59:45 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > I'm talking about 1 name with multiple addresses being > returned in multiple scopes. I'm taking about having > getaddrinfo() then filter out the inappropriate addresses > using local knowledge and setting sin6_sc

Re: Limiting the Use of Site-Local

2002-10-30 Thread Rob Austein
At Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:20:54 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > This is tunnel vision. The only reason that no one expects > them in the DNS is that we havn't added support for them > in the DNS. > > I think LL (and SL) should be in the DNS. Doing this actually > simpl

Re: Limiting the Use of Site-Local

2002-10-30 Thread Rob Austein
I've heard this argument that site-local addresses somehow make the site border router filtering problem easier, and I don't get it. As far as I can tell, they don't help at all, and in fact just make the problem a little worse. I have to filter all the kinds of addresess that shouldn't be crossi

Re: Limiting the Use of Site-Local

2002-10-28 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 28 Oct 2002 22:21:47 -0500, Margaret Wasserman wrote: > > Well, I've certainly heard it, and it looks much better, to me, > than the "two-faced" DNS hack I've heard described in the past. > > I'd love to hear what the other DNS folks think, because maybe > this would be a promising approa

Re: Limiting the Use of Site-Local

2002-10-28 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:52:14 -0500 (EST), Dan Lanciani wrote: > > Any language that reduces site-local addresses to second-class citizens (or, > worse, implies that they should not be used concurrent with global addresses) > will give stack and application vendors an excuse to fail to support such

Re: Node Requirements Issue 3

2002-10-28 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:31:58 -0500, Keith Moore wrote: > > Distributed applications depend on consistent results from DNS, > regardless of where the query came from. Yep. RFC 2826 discusses this in some detail. > and what compelling purpose does all of this complexity serve? > none that I can

Re: Node Requirements Issue 3 (site-local addresses)

2002-10-25 Thread Rob Austein
I think that Margaret's proposal on site-local addresses makes a lot of sense, and I think it's the best suggestion I've heard to date for how we should move forward from where we are now on this issue. IETF IPng Working Group Mai

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Well known site local unicast addresses for DNS resolver"

2002-10-21 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:50:49 +0300 (EEST), Pekka Savola wrote: > > Can you elaborate, which discussion? I did a few searches in the mail > archive but didn't find anything relevant. Postings dating back to March of this year, including the following. --- Begin Message --- At Tue, 14 May 2002

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Well known site local unicast addresses for DNS resolver"

2002-10-21 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:36:37 +0300 (EEST), Pekka Savola wrote: > > Using DNS, we could specify very simple mechanisms for service discovery > (note: those services, unlike to DNS, are not really required for all > notes. Stuff like NTP should be on every node, of course, but world > doesn't end i

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Well known site local unicast addresses for DNS resolver"

2002-10-14 Thread Rob Austein
An additional (and separate) comment on the DNS discovery draft. Temporarily suspending my disbelief in the mechanism described in this document for purposes of discussion, there's a terminology problem: the draft talks about finding DNS resolvers, which is not really right and which some readers

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Well known site local unicast addresses for DNS resolver"

2002-10-14 Thread Rob Austein
At Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:37:32 -0400, Brian Haberman wrote: > > What if we applied the principles that Erik and I propose in > draft-haberman-ipv6-anycast-rr-00.txt? That would allow for the > resolver to bind an address for the server. If the WG were to go ahead with this DNS discovery mechanism

Re: IPv6 w.g. Last Call on "Well known site local unicast addresses for DNS resolver"

2002-10-11 Thread Rob Austein
At Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:13:45 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote: > > This is a IPv6 working group last call for comments on advancing the > following document as a Proposed Standard: > > Title: Well known site local unicast addresses for DNS resolver I have written about this document at some length befor

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addresses and draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-11 Thread Rob Austein
Both Robert's approach and Brian's approach seem workable. Of the two, I think Brian's approach is better, because it collects the scoped address stuff in one place, which seems good on several counts. IETF IPng Working Group Ma

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addresses and draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-08 Thread Rob Austein
At Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:19:44 -0400, Margaret Wasserman wrote: > > In other words, I think that routers should default to the > single-link subnet case, unless mutli-link subnetting has been > explicitly configured. I agree. IET

Re: Fwd: [ipv6mib] So, where were we?

2002-10-04 Thread Rob Austein
What KRE said. IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EM

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addresses and draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-02 Thread Rob Austein
At Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:55:51 -0700, Steve Deering wrote: > > Either we're talking about the case where multilink subnets are not > employed (no need to believe in them), in which case my statement > holds. Right. > Or we are venturing into the oh-so-scary land of multilink subnets, > in which ca

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addresses and draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-02 Thread Rob Austein
At Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:07:55 -0700, Steve Deering wrote: > > >>Here is a suggestion: > >> > >>1) change the wording of the subnet-local definition to say something > >> like: > >> > >> subnet-local scope is given a different and larger value > >> than link-local to enab

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addresses and draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-02 Thread Rob Austein
At Wed, 2 Oct 2002 16:08:34 -0700, Steve Deering wrote: > > At 6:07 PM -0400 10/2/02, Rob Austein wrote: > >The key phrase in your explanation is "the admin assigns". The > >addr-arch doc says "admin-local scope is the smallest scope that must > >be admini

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addresses and draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-02 Thread Rob Austein
At Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:07:55 -0700, Steve Deering wrote: > > In a response to that message, Rob asked me if I had forgotten about > unnumbered point-to-point links. I answered as follows: > > >Yes, I did forget about them, but I think it's obvious how to handle them: > >they are not part of a su

Re: IPv6 subnet-local addresses and draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-02 Thread Rob Austein
At Wed, 02 Oct 2002 17:35:37 -0400, Brian Haberman wrote: > > The subnet-scope is delineated in the same manner as the scopes > 6,7,8,9... That is, a router maintains a scope zone id per interface. > So, if I have a router that has interfaces 1,2,3, & 4 and the admin > assigns a subnet-loca

IPv6 subnet-local addresses and draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt

2002-10-02 Thread Rob Austein
I made the mistake of allowing my arm to be twisted into reviewing draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-10.txt last week, and was sad to find what appears to be an ambiguity in some of text that deals with subnet-scope multicast. Given that this document was already before the IESG at the time I found

Re: IPv6 Flow Label Specification

2002-07-12 Thread Rob Austein
At Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:59:27 +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > All of which tells me that if we define a requirement for the flow label > allocation process to survive reboots, it will be a SHOULD not a MUST. > A toaster would provide a compelling argument for overriding the SHOULD. Precisely

Re: IPv6 Flow Label Specification

2002-07-10 Thread Rob Austein
At Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:58:38 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote: > > I think something with similar properties to TCP's initial sequence number > selection would be about right. A toaster-class device will have to deal > with that as well. I agree that the constraints seem similar. ISN selection is ano

Re: IPv6 Flow Label Specification

2002-07-10 Thread Rob Austein
At Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:21:54 +0300 (EEST), Pekka Savola wrote: > > This is especially important if the implementation should keep track of > flow labels across reboots. I see no good way of doing this except > writing the labels in some kind persistent storage. And consider > operating system c

Re: Mandating Route Optimization

2002-06-02 Thread Rob Austein
At Fri, 31 May 2002 19:54:03 +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: > > then we will have two separate set of IPv6 nodes - without mobile-ipv6 > and with mobile-ipv6, and they cannot even ping each other. > do you feel it acceptable? I'll leave the specific issue (whether MIPv6

Threat model for DNS discovery (was: Stateless DNS discovery draft)

2002-05-22 Thread Rob Austein
At Tue, 14 May 2002 20:19:32 -0400, Steve Bellovin wrote: > > >So how can we understand the threat model for DNS discovery? > > > That takes work... A good starting point would be Derek Atkins' and > Rob Austein's DNS threat analysis document > (draft-ietf-dnsext-dns-threats-01.txt) I haven't ha

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-05-06 Thread Rob Austein
At Fri, 3 May 2002 09:49:45 -0700, Steve Deering wrote: > > It's not the routing system "deciding" the choice of servers, it's the > human who causes the host routes to be injected into the routing system. > Instead of a human putting three DNS server addresses into a DHCP > database, a human con

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-05-02 Thread Rob Austein
At Thu, 02 May 2002 14:44:52 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote: > > The reliance on the routing system for a host route IMHO isn't any > different from having a host on a subnet. The router had to be configured > to advertise a route to the subnet. It didn't happen automatically. The > only differenc

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-30 Thread Rob Austein
At Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:47:20 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote: > > The first set of sections (1-8) does not specify the use anycast or > multicast, only unicast using three well know addresses. Yes, but >From the client's point of view, the practical difference between a well-known unicast address

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-30 Thread Rob Austein
At Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:36:11 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote: > > I think you mentioned in an earlier email about the need for NTP in order > to use DNSSEC. More precisely, in order to verify DNSSEC signatures, but yes. > From the discussion on the list it sounds like the timing requirement for > DNS

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-30 Thread Rob Austein
At Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:56:12 +0200, Hesham Soliman wrote: > > Which boxes does it add? I really don't see any more boxes > here. Note, I'm not advocating this particular approach (injecting > routes from the DNS) but I don't agree with your claim above, and I > think it can work. This approach w

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-30 Thread Rob Austein
So now we're back to changing the DNS protocol and every IPv6-capable DNS client in the world to support triangular wheels. IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-30 Thread Rob Austein
At Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:07:14 -0400, Brian Haberman wrote: > > Actually that is an incorrect statement. The IPv6 addressing > architecture forbids the use of an anycast address as the source > address. So, the response back from the anycast member will have > one of its unicast addresses as the

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-29 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:54:51 -0700, Steve Deering wrote: > > No more so than the use of DHCP relays does. We're talking about the > IGP within a site, and taking advantage of what it already can do. Nope, you're storing new information in the IGP that wasn't there before. But back up and take

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-29 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:45:51 +0200, Hesham Soliman wrote: > >> b) What's the security model by which the router decides whether to >>accept routing updates from the DNS server? > > The same model that is used between routers in the network. Right, so this approach adds a whole new set of bo

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-29 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:53:00 +0200, Hesham Soliman wrote: > > 1. The DNS can inject a route. Do you see problems >with this? Well, "the DNS" doesn't do routes, but I assume you meant the DNS server. Yes, there are issues: a) DNS server now has to implement one or more routing protocols,

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-29 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 29 Apr 2002 18:14:59 +0200, Hesham Soliman wrote: > > How does anycast have this problem? Specifically, how does the DNS > discovery draft have this problem? Server location via anycast means that one is using the routing system to keep track of the location of the DNS server. That is,

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-28 Thread Rob Austein
At Fri, 26 Apr 2002 15:38:35 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote: > > There are issues raised in solutions like this to insure that the > co-located services are adequately tied together. For example in case of a > "DHCP server in the DNS server" the processes need to be tied together in a > manner that

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-22 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:57:02 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote: > > Could you comment on the definition I used for server-less? There > was more than just the use of the word. I think that Ralph already addressed the main point, I doubt that I can improve much on his comments, and I implore you to read w

Re: ICMPv6 too big with a "too small" MTU

2002-04-22 Thread Rob Austein
Well, I don't think it's worth getting into a discussion about whether NAT-PT is required to have per-flow state or SIIT is forbidden from having per-flow state, so I'll just observe that, unless there's also port mapping going on, NAT-PT mostly just deals with addresses. There is an address mapp

Re: ICMPv6 too big with a "too small" MTU

2002-04-22 Thread Rob Austein
Er, NAT-PT is basicly a supserset of SIIT, so anything one needs to do for SIIT one also needs to do for NAT-PT. Or am I misunderstanding something? IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http:

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-19 Thread Rob Austein
At Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:50:01 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote: > > I suspect that most people can tell the difference. No, Bob, that's exactly the point. You see a difference. I see a difference. But is the difference you see the same as the difference I see? Maybe, maybe not. I understand that you'

Re: Proposed IPv6 DNS Discovery Requirements

2002-04-17 Thread Rob Austein
I think the statement would be clearer if rewritten without ever using the word "server", since the newly coined term "server-less" strongly suggests that we are still using that word in multiple ways that conflict with each other. Accepting the confusing terminology temporarily for purposes of d

Re: Stateless DNS discovery draft

2002-04-17 Thread Rob Austein
At Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:52:52 +0200, Hesham Soliman wrote: > >> Well, entities performing the server role of DHCP only answer >> Inform requests when (they think) they have something useful to >> say. The specific mechanism by which multiple entities could act >> in the DHCP server role on a sing

Re: Stateless DNS discovery draft

2002-04-16 Thread Rob Austein
At Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:27:45 -0700, jonne soininen wrote: > > Maybe I was not totally clear what I was trying to say. What I was > trying to say was that the dns discovery draft does not (though the > name would indicate so) talk about discovery, or configuration - > just what would be the well k

Re: Stateless DNS discovery draft

2002-04-16 Thread Rob Austein
At Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:13:04 -0700, jonne soininen wrote: > > I may be wrong but Rob's and Hesham's discussion about configuration > of the node (at this point) is to my opinion a bit off-tack from the > original discussion. I think it's the same discussion. YMMV. --

Re: Stateless DNS discovery draft

2002-04-16 Thread Rob Austein
At Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:48:10 +0200, Hesham Soliman wrote: > > Ok, I should say that the functionality I'd like to see is the > ability to discover a DNS without relying on functional entities > other than the DNS. (not necessarily the entire node, but the server > itself, I think the term server

Re: Stateless DNS discovery draft

2002-04-15 Thread Rob Austein
At Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:47:58 +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: > > this "Information-Request" behavior happens only when O bit is set in > router advertisement packet (see RFC2461 page 19). the problem > "stateless DNS discovery" draft is trying to address is, how to >

Re: Stateless DNS discovery draft

2002-04-15 Thread Rob Austein
At Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:24:36 +0200, Hesham Soliman wrote: > > OK, but we still have two options in IPv6 for address > autoconfiguration: Stateless and Stateful. I don't understand > why we shouldn't allow the option for _real_ stateless > autoconfig in IPv6. By 'real' I mean, we can't claim true

Re: Stateless DNS discovery draft

2002-04-14 Thread Rob Austein
Somewhat late reply, but the topic doesn't seem to have gotten much discussion. At Thu, 4 Apr 2002 17:36:39 +0200, Hesham Soliman wrote: > > During the last meeting a question was raised on whether the > scenarios for which the stateless DNS discovery draft can be used, > were clear to everyone.

Re: PPP and Global Addresses

2002-03-13 Thread Rob Austein
The level 1 compliance stuff is only simple in the case of a single subnet. As soon as you have routers between the client and the server, you have to do something to get the packets across the router. I suppose we could have a discussion about whether magic unicast addresses (which are really a

Re: PPP and Global Addresses

2002-03-09 Thread Rob Austein
At Sat, 9 Mar 2002 03:27:36 +0100, Hesham Soliman wrote: > > I don't have a great knowledge of DHCP but wouldn't this simply > message still require a relay agent? That's one way to do it. Another would be clever use of multicast.

Re: PPP and Global Addresses

2002-03-08 Thread Rob Austein
[Replies intentionally redirected to mailing list by author -- I get way too much mail and really don't need duplicate copies from a list that generates as much traffic as this one. Thanks.] At Thu, 07 Mar 2002 12:26:09 -0500, Ralph Droms wrote: > > I do disagree with the DT conclusion - as d

Re: IPv6 Addr/Prefix clarification

2002-02-12 Thread Rob Austein
> Allocations on non-nibble boundaries are possible of course.. it could > just mean about 8 different almost identical delegations in the worst > case. Right. Which should trivially easy to automate for any organization big enough to need to worry about it. > Or are you referring to "Class-les

Re: Draft Minutes for IPng Interim Meeting

2001-06-11 Thread Rob Austein
The basic problem is that neither the IPv6 community nor the DNS community has reached a clear consensus on whether the extra features of A6 over are worth the extra cost. That's not a euphemism for "have decided that they're not", I really mean that we have people advocating each side in ea

Re: NAT-PT for linux

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Austein
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 20:40:26 -0700 From: Ravikanth Samprathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My question is the following:- Is it possible that the dns servers for both ipv4 and ipv6 to run in the same border gateway as the NAT-PT? Or in other words, Can we run, NAT-PT, ipv4-dns-server and

Re: notes on A6 transition from AAAA (fwd)

2001-03-27 Thread Rob Austein
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:14:52 -0500 From: Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This proposal does not formally define equivalence of and A6. Right. There's still a bit of an open issue about what to do with in the long run, perhaps declare it to be a form of meta query for s