Re: an unplanned benefit of IPv6

2001-03-30 Thread Stig Venås
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:57:11AM +1000, Robert Elz wrote: > The real killer to IPv4 renumbering is all the other people that you don't > know who have your IPv4 address recorded somewhere for one reason or > another. That is what IPv6 really needs to avoid. And that includes > making all thin

Re: an unplanned benefit of IPv6

2001-03-27 Thread Stig Venås
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:56:14PM -0800, Bill Manning wrote: > % > % On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:54PM -0600, Matt Crawford wrote: > % > You know what I'm going to liker about the shining all-v6 future? > % > It's going to be rather difficult for the script kiddies to scan my > % > entire addre

Re: code for IPv6 or for AF independence

2001-03-22 Thread Stig Venås
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:15:32AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Should we program for AF independence (using getaddrinfo/getnameinfo) > or for IPv6 (and relying in IPv4 mapped addresses for compatibility) I would say independence, you don't want the applications to work only with IPv6-enable

Re: Comment on draft-ietf-ipngwg-addrconf-privacy-02

2000-08-03 Thread Stig Venås
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 01:07:35PM -0500, Matt Crawford wrote: > Please remove the suggestion that DNS servers 'fabricate > "dummy" answers'! The alternative, that nodes register > random names, is fine. How about registering a PTR record for the prefix, if some server can't find a PTR record fo

Re: bind(2) ordering constraint

2000-08-03 Thread Stig Venås
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 01:17:56AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Platform: Windows > >Version: 2000 > >Comment: Output is identical to Itojun's netbsd output, except in > > two cases where multiple error codes apply and Windows > > chooses to generate a different one. > > >

Re: bind(2) ordering constraint

2000-08-03 Thread Stig Venås
This is about what I expected, what I didn't like though was: On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:31:11AM +0900, Hideaki YOSHIFUJI wrote: > Platform: Linux > Version: 2.2.16 > Comment: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (aka potato), tested on cerberus. > Tester: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > starting test

Re: SCTP API draft (was Re: New "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture" draft)

2000-07-28 Thread Stig Venås
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 08:55:51AM +0900, Hideaki YOSHIFUJI wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:28:48 >-0500), "La Monte Henry Piggy Yarroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > > >> the v6 application could do this more simply by binding to the v4 > > >> address (be it wil