Re: IPv6-only devices?

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Ronald van der Pol wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 15:39:30 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
> 
> > It's a lot simpler than trying to teach applications to
> > cope with a mixture of the two - which gets you back to the problems
> > inherent in scoped addresses.
> 
> I don't agree. Applications that walk all addresses (v6 and v4) are
> widely deployed without any problems. [...]

I'm not sure if this is trivial.  I have yet to see the influx of
"production" services which have both A and AAAA records for a DNS name.

It could be harder than we imagine..

> I am thinking about ssh, http,
> smtp, etc. Porting applications to use both v4 and v6 addresses is
> in many cases easy.

I agree, porting is the easy part..
 
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