Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:21:17 +1000 From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> To: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> Cc: Darren Pilgrim <phi@evilphi.com>, Andreas Pettersson <andpet@telia.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND 9.3.1 - How to get rid of AAAA querys? Message-ID: <200709140121.l8E1LHjO058152@drugs.dv.isc.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:19:41 -0400." <Pine.OSX.4.64.0709132008100.13659@gee5.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
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> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > > Andreas Pettersson wrote: > >> Mark Andrews wrote: > >>> Why don't you go the other way and get yourself IPv6 > >>> connectivity. You do realise that you will require it to > >>> reach many sites in about 3 years time as they will be IPv6 > >>> only > >> > >> For almost 10 years I've heard discussions about the successor to IPv4, bu > t > >> from my point of view (may differ from others..) not much has happened. Of > > >> course, I can imagine that when the wheel starts rolling for real things > >> might change quickly. 3 years may prove to be correct, but are there any > >> clear signs pointing in this direction? > > > > The proponents of IPv6 have claimed growing real-world deployment for the > > last several years. There is yet no significant commercial deployment--the > > > real world still runs on IPv4. > > Just adding another "real world" datapoint... I'd love to get my hands > dirty with IPv6. I contacted both of our upstreams, Level3 and HE.net. > > Level3 never responded, if anyone has details on what their deal is, > please share (offlist). > > HE.net wanted both more money and for us to order another port with them. HE claim they are now dual stacked. You shouldn't need a second port. > For the 0.0001% of our users that have expressed interest in v6 > connectivity, we're not going to pay for another FE port just to > experiment. I'm sure most other Tier-2 local/regional ISPs feel the same > way. > > If there were a free and "best effort" service offered by any of our > upstreams though, I'd jump at it. > > My buddy Ike over at NYCBUG does have a bunch of pictures of cheap > consumer IPv6 home routers from his trip to Japan. Apparently it's quite > widespread there. > > Charles > > > -- > > Darren Pilgrim > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@isc.org
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