Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-19 Thread John Levine
It appears that Stephen Satchell said: >> or get an HE /48 over a tunnel which will do PTR or NS records appropriately. > >Hurricane Electric? Seriously? I've been using HE's free ipv6 tunnels for ten years. They work great. I don't ever recall any downtime. They assign you a /64 by default, /48

RE: (Free)RADIUS Front-End

2021-09-19 Thread Philip Loenneker
Splynx is a commercial product designed to be an entire package for running an ISP, including billing etc. It uses FreeRadius in the backend which chains into their own RADIUS system. Integration for MikroTik routers is very extensive, but we have had it working with a variety of other BNGs too

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-19 Thread Victor Kuarsingh
Owen, On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 23:51 Owen DeLong wrote: > On Sep 18, 2021, at 12:34 , Victor Kuarsingh wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 2:39 PM John Levine wrote: > >> It appears that Owen DeLong via NANOG said: >> >> > Glad you noted this. Thinking this was/is purely a hardware cycle prob

Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle!

2021-09-19 Thread Owen DeLong via NANOG
In general, my experience with IP Geolocation has been that it’s slightly worse than a bad idea, yet that ship has sailed and like Windows, there are way too many entrenched applications using it for logic to ever prevail. I believe Amazon runs their own detection service for this and IIRC, they

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-19 Thread Owen DeLong via NANOG
> On Sep 10, 2021, at 00:21 , Bjørn Mork wrote: > > Owen DeLong via NANOG writes: > >> The addresses aren’t the major cost of providing IPv4 services. >> >> CGN boxes, support calls, increasing size of routing table = buying new >> routers, etc. > > You're counting dual-stack costs as if

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-19 Thread Owen DeLong via NANOG
> On Sep 18, 2021, at 23:20 , Masataka Ohta > wrote: > > John Levine wrote: > >>> Unless their infrastructure runs significantly on hardware and >>> software pre-2004 (unlikely), so does the cost of adding IPv6 to >>> their content servers. Especially if they’re using a CDN such as >>> Akama

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-19 Thread Masataka Ohta
Saku Ytti wrote: It is almost guaranteed we are married to IPv4 past our life cycles, because there will be a lot of drivers to keep it. So, the war was between "IPv4 with NAT" and "IPv4 dual stacked with IPv6". If IPv6 were simple, quickly standardized and easily deployable, which are technic

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-19 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 9/18/21 11:20 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote: Mark Andrews wrote: > There is nothing at the protocol level stopping AT&T offering a > similar level of service. Setting up reverse DNS lookup for 16B address is annoying, which may stop AT&T offering it. How many mail servers are on the Internet t

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-19 Thread Saku Ytti
People who keep thinking this is a technical problem that can be engineered away are confused. People who think the relative cost of doing lookup for IPV4/IPV6 is visible to TCO are confused. Just because you can observe technical differences doesn't mean they are important, it may mean you're bein