Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-24 Thread Mark Delany
On 24Mar22, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) allegedly wrote: > Hello Mark: > > > Any such "transition plan" whether "working" or "straightforward" is > > logically impossible. Why anyone thinks such a mythical plan might yet be > > formulated some 20+ years after deploying any of ipv6, ipv4++ or

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-24 Thread Mark Delany
On 24Mar22, Vasilenko Eduard allegedly wrote: > Hence, the primary blocking entity for IPv6 adoption is Google: they do not > support DHCPv6 for the most popular OS. No. The primary "blocking entity" is that "legacy" ipv4 works just fine and adopting ipv6 or ipv4++ or ipv6-lite or ipv-magical

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-24 Thread Mark Delany
On 24Mar22, Greg Skinner via NANOG allegedly wrote: > straightforward transition plan > in-hand working transition strategy > nor a straightforward transition Any such "transition plan" whether "working" or "straightforward" is logically impossible. Why anyone thinks such a mythical plan might

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-24 Thread Mark Delany
On 23Mar22, Owen DeLong via NANOG allegedly wrote: > I would not say that IPv6 has been and continues to be a failure Even if one might ask that question, what are the realistic alternatives? 1. Drop ipv6 and replace it with ipv4++ or ipv6-lite or whatever other protocol that magically

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-19 Thread Mark Delany
On 19Mar22, Matt Hoppes allegedly wrote: > So, while it's true that a 192.168.0.1 computer couldn't connect to a > 43.23.0.0.12.168.0.1 computer, without a software patch - that patch > would be very simple and quick to deploy Let's call this ipv4++ Question: How does 192.168.0.1 learn about

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-09 Thread Mark Delany
On 09Feb22, Joe Greco allegedly wrote: > I dunno. I think I'd find that being unable to resolve a hostname or > being unable to exchange packets result in a similar level of Internet > brokenness. Sure. The result is the same, but as a discriminator for diagnosing the problem it's quite

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-09 Thread Mark Delany
On 09Feb22, Joe Greco allegedly wrote: > So what people really want is to be able to "ping internet" and so far > the easiest thing people have been able to find is "ping 8.8.8.8" or > some other easily remembered thing. Yes, I think "ping internet" is the most accurate description thus far. Or

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mark Delany
On 08Feb22, Mike Hammett allegedly wrote: > Some people need a clue by four and I'm looking to build my collection of > them. > "Google services, including Google Public DNS, are not designed as ICMP > network testing services" Hard to disagree with "their network, their rules", but we're

Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

2021-01-03 Thread Mark Delany
On 03Jan21, Brandon Martin allegedly wrote: > I was thinking more in the original context of this thread w.r.t. > potential distribution of emergency alerts. That could, if > semi-centralized, easily result in 100s of million connections to juggle > across a single service just for the USA.

Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

2021-01-03 Thread Mark Delany
On 03Jan21, Brandon Martin allegedly wrote: > On 1/3/21 3:11 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > Well, TCP means that the servers have to expect to have 100k's of open > > connections; I remember that used to be a problem. > > Out of curiosity, has anyone investigated if it's possible to hold open >

Re: An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

2020-05-13 Thread Mark Delany
On 13May20, Denys Fedoryshchenko allegedly wrote: > What about introducing some cache offloading, like CDN doing? (Google, > Facebook, Netflix, Akamai, etc) > Maybe some opensource communities can help as well Surely someone has already thought thru the idea of a community CDN? Perhaps along the

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-11 Thread Mark Delany
> We need to keep battery backup requirements, and expand them to all last > mile IP bits. The need to call 911 has not gone away. For sure. I was merely observing that the conversion of POTS to VOIP in Australia didn't create a nation-wide disaster as the pearl-clutchers once predicted. In

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-11 Thread Mark Delany
> wasnt there a hige shit stom in australia for their new national > broadband network making internet ptrimary and phone secondary, a lot > of aussies on forums I frequent bitch about its reliability, where > even their aged copper services worked fine, not to mention prolonged > outages due to

Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai

2019-12-08 Thread Mark Delany
> Have there been any fundamental change in their network architecture > that might explain pulling these caches? Maybe not network architecture, but what if the cache-to-content ratio is dropping dramatically due to changes in consumer behavior and/or a huge increase in the underlying content

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-11 Thread Mark Delany
> What I've seen happen more often than that: > > Server goes partly belly-up, queue fills up. Backup process runs, backing up > the > queue. (Optionally here: Reboot the server and lose the queue). Much later, > the > server hits another issue that requires recovering from backups - and they

Re: IPv6 on mobile networks, was Update to BCP-38?

2019-10-03 Thread Mark Delany
> Yep I see this on AT's post paid network with my Pixel 3A XL as well, one > place I really noticed it causing issues is with Facebook and Instagram > where Facebook requires constant captions to view any Facebook links I > receive and embedded Instagram content in news articles and things of