Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-30 Thread David Conrad
Owen, On Apr 30, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > Ideally, in the vast majority of cases, resolv.conf is populated by dhcpv6 or > it's successor. :-). I haven't been following the religious war against DHCPv6 -- is it now acceptable to get DNS information via DHCPv6? I note that MacOSX s

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-30 Thread Paul Timmins
David Conrad wrote: Paul, On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Paul Timmins wrote: If you change ISPs, send out an RA with the new addresses, wait a bit, then send out an RA with lifetime 0 on the old address. Even if this works (and I know a lot of applications that use the socket() API th

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 30, 2010, at 6:26 PM, David Conrad wrote: > Paul, > > On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Paul Timmins wrote: >> If you change ISPs, send out an RA with the new addresses, wait a bit, then >> send out an RA with lifetime 0 on the old address. > > Even if this works (and I know a lot of applica

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-30 Thread David Conrad
Paul, On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Paul Timmins wrote: > If you change ISPs, send out an RA with the new addresses, wait a bit, then > send out an RA with lifetime 0 on the old address. Even if this works (and I know a lot of applications that use the socket() API that effectively cache the add

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-30 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:22:47 -0700 Bill Stewart wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> Here's an exercise.  Wipe a PC.  Put it on that cable modem with no > >> firewall.  Install XP on it.  See if you can get any service packs > >> installed before the box is infecte

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-29 Thread Paul Timmins
David Conrad wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Carl Rosevear wrote: I don't understand why anyone thinks NAT should be a fundamental part of the v6 internet Perhaps the ability to change service providers without having to renumber? Number your internal network on ULA, and put public

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-29 Thread Bill Stewart
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> Here's an exercise.  Wipe a PC.  Put it on that cable modem with no >> firewall.  Install XP on it.  See if you can get any service packs installed >> before the box is infected. > 1.      Yes, I can.  I simply didn't put an IPv4 address on

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-29 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:04:25 -0500 Dave Pooser wrote: > > IPv6's fundamental goal is to restore end-to-end. > > For some. For many, IPv6's fundamental goal is to keep doing what we've been > doing without running out of addresses. The fact that the two camps have > orthogonal goals is probably p

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-29 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:33:02 +1000 Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message , David > Conrad > writes: > > Mark, > > > > On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > >> Perhaps the ability to change service providers without having to = > > renumber? > > >=20 > > > We have that ability alre

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:54:04 PDT, David Conrad said: > On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Carl Rosevear wrote: > > I don't understand why anyone thinks NAT should be a fundamental part > > of the v6 internet > > Perhaps the ability to change service providers without having to renumber? RFC4193 or PI a

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , David Conrad writes: > Mark, > > On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > >> Perhaps the ability to change service providers without having to = > renumber? > >=20 > > We have that ability already. Doesn't require NAT. > > Cool! You've figured out, e.g., how to renumber

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread David Conrad
Mark, On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: >> Perhaps the ability to change service providers without having to renumber? > > We have that ability already. Doesn't require NAT. Cool! You've figured out, e.g., how to renumber authoritative name servers that you don't have direct co

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread David Barak
--- On Wed, 4/28/10, Mark Smith wrote: > > I'm not people are understanding or know the true reality. > NAT broke the > Internet's architecture, by turning IP from being a > peer-to-peer > protocol into a master/slave one (think mainframes and dumb > terminals). > Read RFC1958 if you don't under

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <01f57362-8092-48cb-8336-15b9cc171...@virtualized.org>, David Conrad writes: > On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Carl Rosevear wrote: > > I don't understand why anyone thinks NAT should be a fundamental part = > of the v6 internet=20 > > Perhaps the ability to change service providers with

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 14:54 -0700, David Conrad wrote: > On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Carl Rosevear wrote: > > I don't understand why anyone thinks NAT should be a fundamental part of > > the v6 internet > > Perhaps the ability to change service providers without having to renumber? DHCPv6 solv

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread Dave Pooser
> IPv6's fundamental goal is to restore end-to-end. For some. For many, IPv6's fundamental goal is to keep doing what we've been doing without running out of addresses. The fact that the two camps have orthogonal goals is probably part of the reason the rate of growth on IPv6 is so slow. -- Dave

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread Felipe Zanchet Grazziotin
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:54 PM, David Conrad wrote: > On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Carl Rosevear wrote: > > I don't understand why anyone thinks NAT should be a fundamental part of > the v6 internet > > Perhaps the ability to change service providers without having to renumber? > Couldn't we us

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Carl Rosevear wrote: > I don't understand why anyone thinks NAT should be a fundamental part of the > v6 internet Perhaps the ability to change service providers without having to renumber? Regards, -drc

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread Carl Rosevear
I'm not normally one to respond to NANOG messages with opinions but... Yeah, NAT broke the internet. Yes you can engineer around it. There is NO reason to hold onto NAT as a standard. With v6 we have the opportunity to do it right (or at least semi-right) from the beginning, lets not choos

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:44:41 -0700 Matthew Kaufman wrote: > Mark Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:29:50 -0400 > > Dave Israel wrote: > > > > > >> On 4/27/2010 1:36 PM, Andy Davidson wrote: > >> > >>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:29:59AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote: > >>> > >>>

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Mark Smith wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:29:50 -0400 Dave Israel wrote: On 4/27/2010 1:36 PM, Andy Davidson wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:29:59AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote: Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype? Yes, yes, and yes. Works fine.

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:29:50 -0400 Dave Israel wrote: > On 4/27/2010 1:36 PM, Andy Davidson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:29:59AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote: > > > >>> Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype? > >>> > >> Yes, yes, and yes. Works fine. > >> > > What about every

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread gordon b slater
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 02:13 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > I would see UPNP as being a security risk and prone to denial of > > service attacks when you have torrent clients attempting to grab > every +1 apologies if I've said this here before - UPNP = unstoppable Peek and Poke Gord

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.28 00:04, Josh Hoppes wrote: > I'll preface this that I'm more of an end user then a network > administrator, but I do feel I have a good enough understanding of the > protocols and > network administration to submit my two cents. You are always welcome to do so. > The issue I see with

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > >Fortunately, the IPv6 address space is so large and sparse, that > >scanning it would be quite a feat, even if a random outside attacker > >already knew for a fact that a certain /64 probably contains a > >vulnerable host. > All I need to do i

the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Josh Hoppes
I'll preface this that I'm more of an end user then a network administrator, but I do feel I have a good enough understanding of the protocols and network administration to submit my two cents. The issue I see with this level of NAT, is the fact that I don't expect that UPNP be implemented at that

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Matthew Kaufman
James Hess wrote: Fortunately, the IPv6 address space is so large and sparse, that scanning it would be quite a feat, even if a random outside attacker already knew for a fact that a certain /64 probably contains a vulnerable host. All I need to do is run a popular web site on the IPv6 I

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Owen DeLong wrote: On Apr 27, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: Owen DeLong wrote: On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: Andy Davidson wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:29:59AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote: Did you use Y

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Jon Lewis writes: > Both my kids run Win2k (to support old software that doesn't run > well/at all post-2k). I doubt that's all that unusual. Then they won't have IPv6 and hence are irrelevent to the discussion about IPv6 NAT. As for built in firewalls, even my brother printer a

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread James Hess
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: > breaks.  i.e. they'll know its broken.  When they change the default policy > on the firewall to Accept/Allow all, everything will still work...until all > their machines are infected with enough stuff to break them. The same is true with IPv4 +

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > >> That site will manage to chucklehead their config whether or not it's NAT'ed. > > True...but when they do it and all their important stuff is in 192.168.0/24, > you still can't reach it...an

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Jon Lewis
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: That site will manage to chucklehead their config whether or not it's NAT'ed. True...but when they do it and all their important stuff is in 192.168.0/24, you still can't reach it...and if they break NAT, at least their internet breaks. i.e

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:54:07 EDT, Jon Lewis said: > I think you forget where most networking is done. Monitoring? You mean > something beyond walking down the hall to the network closet and seeing > all the blinking lights are flashing really fast? That site will manage to chucklehead their c

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 27, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > Owen DeLong wrote: >> On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: >> >> >>> Andy Davidson wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:29:59AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote: >> Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype?

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Jon Lewis
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: At least with NAT, if someone really screws up the config, the "inside" stuff is all typically on non-publicly-routed IPs, so the worst likely to happen is they lose internet, but at least the internet can't directly reach them. You *do* reali

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Owen DeLong wrote: On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: Andy Davidson wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:29:59AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote: Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype? Yes, yes, and yes. Works fine. What about every o

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:37:08 EDT, Jon Lewis said: > Maybe we want end-to-end to break. > > Firewalls can trivially be misconfigured such that they're little more > than routers, fully exposing all the hosts behind them to everything bad > the internet has to offer (hackers, malware looking to s

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 27, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > Andy Davidson wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:29:59AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote: >> Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype? >>> Yes, yes, and yes. Works fine. >>> >> >> What about every other service/protocol that

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Jon Lewis
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: The difference is that if a protocol wants to be end-to-end, I can fix a firewall to not break it. You don't have that option with a NAT. Maybe we want end-to-end to break. Firewalls can trivially be misconfigured such that they're little mo

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Dave Israel
On 4/27/2010 1:36 PM, Andy Davidson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:29:59AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote: > >>> Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype? >>> >> Yes, yes, and yes. Works fine. >> > What about every other service/protocol that users use today, > and might be invented t

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:48:54 PDT, Matthew Kaufman said: > Anyone inventing a new service/protocol that doesn't work with NAT isn't > planning on success. Only true in the IPv4 world. IPv6 will hopefully be different. > > The answer to these questions isn't a good one for users, so > > as the c

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread John R. Levine
Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype? Yes, yes, and yes. Works fine. What about every other service/protocol that users use today, and might be invented tomorrow ? Do & will they all work with NAT ? Some do, some don't. My observation is that in practice the stuff that people do on consume

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 27/04/2010 18:48, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > Anyone inventing a new service/protocol that doesn't work with NAT isn't > planning on success. You mean, like multisession bgp over tls? Nick, just sayin'

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Andy Davidson wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:29:59AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote: Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype? Yes, yes, and yes. Works fine. What about every other service/protocol that users use today, and might be invented tomorrow ? Do & will they all work wit

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-27 Thread Andy Davidson
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:29:59AM -0400, John R. Levine wrote: >> Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype? > Yes, yes, and yes. Works fine. What about every other service/protocol that users use today, and might be invented tomorrow ? Do & will they all work with NAT ? Do many others work as wel

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-21 Thread Jens Link
"John R. Levine" writes: >> Did you run any services? > > Of course not, it's consumer DSL. I run services on my server which is > somewhere else and tunnel in via ssh which, of course, works fine > through NAT. Take a look at all those small SOHO storage boxes. They all offer web and FTP servi

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-20 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:38:33 +0200 (CEST) Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, John R. Levine wrote: > > > Skype video chat, all the time, works fine. Don't remember about file > > transfer. > > Whenever I am behind NAT and talk to someone else who is behind NAT skype > seems to

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-20 Thread Eliot Lear
On 4/20/10 6:38 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, John R. Levine wrote: Skype video chat, all the time, works fine. Don't remember about file transfer. Whenever I am behind NAT and talk to someone else who is behind NAT skype seems to lower the quality, my guess it's beca

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-20 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, John R. Levine wrote: Skype video chat, all the time, works fine. Don't remember about file transfer. Whenever I am behind NAT and talk to someone else who is behind NAT skype seems to lower the quality, my guess it's because it now bounces traffic via another non-NATed

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-20 Thread John R. Levine
Did you use Yahoo IM, AIM, or Skype? Yes, yes, and yes. Works fine. Did you use any of those for Video Chat and/or to transfer files? Skype video chat, all the time, works fine. Don't remember about file transfer. Did you do any peer to peer filesharing? Yeah, I got the latest Freebs