Re: multihoming requirement and NAT64

["George Tsirtsis" <tsirtsis@googlemail.com>]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum
<iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
> On 29 mrt 2008, at 11:32, George Tsirtsis wrote:
>
>  > GT> Sorry, I am slow this morning but what does this mean exactly? Are
>  > you talking about one NAT64 box connected to two ISPs? or are you
>  > talking about two NAT64 boxes serving the same IPv6-stab,
>
>  What's an IPv6-stab?
>

GT> hmmm IPv6-stub(?) maybe. I mean an IPv6 only network that does not
offer any transit routing services even if it has more than one
interfaces to other networks.

>  What I'm talking about is the situation where a user is using one
>  translator, the translator fails and the user needs to switch to
>  another translator.
>
>  In order for this to work, the user needs to see a new /96 for the
>  other translator relatively fast. So either the user needs to switch
>  to a different DNS resolver for existing NAT-PT, which I don't think
>  can happen quickly as a reaction to a failure beyond the local link,
>  or the DNS ALG / host itself needs to see a new /96 prefix though some
>  TBD mechanism fairly quickly.
>

GT> OK, this is clear. This then is not going to be a seamless event,
but at least communications can be restarted.

Thanks
George