In message <aanlktimkgpyky_aka5px4-ca-3=oufhgbnenrkpmp...@mail.gmail.com>, Came ron Byrne writes: > 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 ha= > ve these IPs deeply embedded in their configs. > > > > They shouldn't be using IP addresses in configs, they should be using DNS= > names. =A0Time to bite the bullet and get this fixed prior to their eventu= > al 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.
Which is one of the reasons why DS-lite is a better solution for providing legacy access to the IPv4 Internet than NAT64/DNS64. DS-lite only breaks what NAT44 breaks. DS-lite doesn't break new things. > 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 > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > http://groups.google.com/group/tmoipv6beta > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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. > > > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0-- Alan Kay > > > > > > > -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
