Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-18 Thread David W. Hankins
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 08:20:08PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: It's not that users are stupid, necessarily. That was a bad choice of words on my part. I was aiming at describing the perception we often have, as we sit in our back rooms and hear the varied reports from our support departments of

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-17 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17-apr-2007, at 4:12, Stephen Sprunk wrote: I also don't know how they react when you try to contact a site that _does_ have records, since no major content site has them (which is a whole 'nother discussion). Not major content sites, but these are some web sites with

(very few) AAAA websites, was: Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-17 Thread Carlos Friacas
Hi, On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 17-apr-2007, at 4:12, Stephen Sprunk wrote: I also don't know how they react when you try to contact a site that _does_ have records, since no major content site has them (which is a whole 'nother discussion). Not major

RE: (very few) AAAA websites, was: Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-17 Thread michael.dillon
www.hitachi.co.jp this one is very interesting! :-) does anybody know more from Japan, regarding largely known brands? They developed IPv6 shims for their Windows 95 network drivers to all PCs using their network cards to use IPv6. --Michael Dillon

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-17 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:42:53PM -0700, David W. Hankins wrote: Both of these two progression trees represent the cumulative formulation of knowledge: Users are stupid. Automatic is not just best, it's the only way. [snip] The main point, is that if you leave all

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread David W. Hankins
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:59:36PM +1200, Perry Lorier wrote: When you can plug your computer in, and automatically (with no clicking) get an IPv6 address, Router Advertisements let you automatically configure as many IPv6 addresses as you feel like. Remember that in XP, which Iljitsch

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread Fred Heutte
If you turn on IPv6 on an XP machine (or have it turned on for you by a helpful application or MCP-enabled IT staff) be aware that there can be unexpected consequences. In my case it was discovering the nooks and crannies of Teredo, Microsoft's IPv6 tunnelling protocol.

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 16-apr-2007, at 23:42, David W. Hankins wrote: Router Advertisements let you automatically configure as many IPv6 addresses as you feel like. Remember that in XP, which Iljitsch recently cited to support his claim of years of operating system support, you must click IPv6 into your

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread Jeroen Massar
[h how come I didn't parse any operational content in this post...] Fred Heutte wrote: [..] I spent a couple hours in a hotel recently trying to untangle why using the DSL system I could see the net but couldn't get to any sites other than a few I tried at random like the BBC, Yahoo and

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread David W. Hankins
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 12:38:42PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Sure, but that's because with IPv4, there are only three flavors: - manual configuration - PPP - DHCP Although nobody uses them: - BOOTP - RARP The distinction of DHCP, BOOTP, and RARP is important I think, and it would

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Jeroen Massar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fred Heutte wrote: I spent a couple hours in a hotel recently trying to untangle why using the DSL system I could see the net but couldn't get to any sites other than a few I tried at random like the BBC, Yahoo and Google. That's because they are

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake Jeroen Massar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fred Heutte wrote: I spent a couple hours in a hotel recently trying to untangle why using the DSL system I could see the net but couldn't get to any sites other than a few I tried at random like

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread Jeroen Massar
Chris L. Morrow wrote: [..] the STSN devices? or 'ibahn' ? One thing to keep in mind is that the DNS-LB used by Google/yahoo (in the examples above) seems to be returning a CNAME for queries, then nothing for the follow-up resolution request for a for the CNAME... So, ipv6 things may

Re: [ok] Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread Fred Heutte
I may well not have fully figured out what was going on in this particular situation. Mostly because I got tired of trying to sort out the endless mysteries of IPv6 running under XP Service Pack 2. Teredo may or may not have been at issue. I saw some analyses indicating this might have been

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Jeroen Massar [EMAIL PROTECTED] But for the rest it all seems pretty fine to me... or do you mean that those ibahn things see NOERROR and then no answers, thus wrongly cache that as label has 0 answers at all? or what I mention above with the redirect? They do the same thing for

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread Jeroen Massar
Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake Jeroen Massar [EMAIL PROTECTED] But for the rest it all seems pretty fine to me... or do you mean that those ibahn things see NOERROR and then no answers, thus wrongly cache that as label has 0 answers at all? or what I mention above with the redirect?

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread Paul Vixie
since somebody made the mistake of cc'ing me, i actually saw this message even though i long ago killed-by-thread the offtopic noise it's part of. hereis: What's weird is that they don't just return a 0-record NOERROR when you do the follow-up A query, which would be the most logical

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-15 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 13-apr-2007, at 21:48, David W. Hankins wrote: A given ISP may or may not directly communicate with end hosts using any form of DHCP, but the current broadband ISP models which are de rigeur would not be salient without DHCPv4 on the end hosts, even if that is only between the set top box

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-15 Thread Joe Abley
On 15-Apr-2007, at 06:38, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: With IPv6, there's of course still manual configuration, but PPP is out because it can't negotiate IPv6 addresses. I've heard you say this a few times now, but I am also told by various people in various places that they have

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-15 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 15-apr-2007, at 21:35, Joe Abley wrote: With IPv6, there's of course still manual configuration, but PPP is out because it can't negotiate IPv6 addresses. I've heard you say this a few times now, but I am also told by various people in various places that they have succeeded in

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: With IPv4, PPP IPCP will negotiate a whole bunch of stuff, including the addresses of both sides of the link. PPP IP6CP only negotiates a 32-bit unique token for each side which can then be used to create link local addresses. I'm

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-15 Thread Perry Lorier
When you can plug your computer in, and automatically (with no clicking) get an IPv6 address, Router Advertisements let you automatically configure as many IPv6 addresses as you feel like. have something tell you where your DNS assist servers, Microsoft had an old expired draft with

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007, Perry Lorier wrote: configure web proxies, once you have DNS you can use the WPAD proxy auto discovery thingamabob. .. and the microsoft extensions to support ipv6 in proxy autoconfiguration files: http://blogs.msdn.com/wndp/articles/IPV6_PAC_Extensions_v0_9.aspx

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-13 Thread David W. Hankins
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:11:54AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: I have a Cisco 2500 with software from 1999 and a Windows XP box with software from 2001, both supporting IPv6, sitting here... I didn't get my first Mac until 2002, but that one supported IPv6 at that point, too. It

DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-12 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 10-apr-2007, at 18:12, David W. Hankins wrote: IPv6 has had operating system and router support for years. I'd have to object with such a blanket statement. I have a Cisco 2500 with software from 1999 and a Windows XP box with software from 2001, both supporting IPv6, sitting here...

Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 06:15:34PM -0500, J. Oquendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 24 lines which said: was successfully configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec and IPv6 technologies in space. Any human on board? Because he would have been able to access useful

RE: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-10 Thread Scott Morris
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:55 AM To: J. Oquendo Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 06:15:34PM -0500, J. Oquendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 24 lines which said: was successfully configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use

Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-10 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:54:39PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 06:15:34PM -0500, J. Oquendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 24 lines which said: was successfully configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec and IPv6 technologies in space.

Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 10, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Joseph S D Yao wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:54:39PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 06:15:34PM -0500, J. Oquendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 24 lines which said: was successfully configured by NASA Glenn Research Center

Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-10 Thread David W. Hankins
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:54:39PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: IPv6 has had operating system and router support for years. I'd have to object with such a blanket statement. I don't think you can say you support IPv6 (from an ISP's point of view) without DHCPv6, since I don't think anyone

Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-10 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: The only good thing I can say about this proposal is that 10GB is not NEARLY enough to get your typical luser to think about changing their configuration. Therefore, it probably won't have an impact on v6 adoption. (That ghod.) Nor was it intended to. From what

Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-10 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:10:59PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: ... Second, who said v6 was the heights? ... My, aren't we serious? Too serious to realize that satellites are a little higher than I, at least, can reach. -- Joe Yao Analex Contractor

Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 10, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Joseph S D Yao wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:10:59PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: ... Second, who said v6 was the heights? ... My, aren't we serious? Too serious to realize that satellites are a little higher than I, at least, can reach. Guess I

Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-10 Thread Gian Constantine
Yes. Silly of you. I think you may have missed more than the singular reference. This back and forth has little to do with morality and more to do with opinion. Yet it begs, how moral is an argument of 'my opinion is superior to your opinion'? Such a lashing of another's opinion under

IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-08 Thread J. Oquendo
On Thursday, 29 March 2007, a Cisco Systems router, flying in low Earth Orbit onboard the UK-DMC satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), was successfully configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec and IPv6 technologies in space. http://www.dmcii.com/news.htm Its

Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-08 Thread Joel Jaeggli
J. Oquendo wrote: On Thursday, 29 March 2007, a Cisco Systems router, flying in low Earth Orbit onboard the UK-DMC satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), was successfully configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec and IPv6 technologies in space.