On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobb...@arbor.net> wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:38 AM, ML wrote: > >> At least not without some painful rebuilds of criticals systems which have >> these IPs deeply embedded in their configs. > > They shouldn't be using IP addresses in configs, they should be using DNS > names. Time to bite the bullet and get this fixed prior to their eventual > forced migration to IPv6. >
Somebody should tell the nytimes.com about this being a bad practice, many of their images are linked to ip addresses directly and will certainly fail in the future (this year, mobile) networks that will use NAT64/DNS64. I am sure users will find other places to view their news when nytimes.com fails to work in these ipv6-only networks. Small summary of the problem of IPv4 literals and how they will break in certain IPv6 environments that will be deployed this year http://groups.google.com/group/ipv4literals Cameron ========= http://groups.google.com/group/tmoipv6beta ========= > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> > > Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid, with millions > of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but > just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. > > -- Alan Kay > > >
