NY Times on IPv4 depletion

Brzozowski, John John_Brzozowski at Cable.Comcast.com
Tue Feb 15 01:09:17 UTC 2011


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On 2/14/11 5:09 PM, "Cameron Byrne" <cb.list6 at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Feb 14, 2011 1:52 PM, "Mark Andrews" <marka at isc.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> In message <4D597216.1030400 at brightok.net>, Jack Bates writes:
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2/14/2011 12:12 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
>> > > Too bad the article pushes my mobile device to their mobile site
>> > > mobile.nytimes.com and that references an ipv4 literal for the
>>picture
>to
>> > > load .... so not only is nytimes not ipv6 it is also broken for ipv6
>only
>> > > users behind nat64 ....
>> >
>> > That's almost as bad as the hundreds of subdomains used in webpages
>> > which sometimes hit broken load balancers (reporting nxdomain for
>>AAAA).
>>
>> Very few do that anymore.  What they do however is return the wrong SOA
>> record.
>>
>> > So you have to check each and every domain in the source to find which
>> > ones are broken.
>>
>> Which one really shouldn't have to do.  Add DS-Lite support to the
>> phone and have the carriers advertise that they support DS-Lite and
>> the IPv4 literal problem goes away.
>>
>> This has been done in a phone already so it is possible to do.
>>
>
>Ds-lite has been dismissed by 3gpp. Nytimes needs to start using fqdns and
>ideally ipv6.  Until then, it's their content that's being mangled. It is
>not reasonable for network operators to engineer for amateur web
>programming
>mistakes
>
>Cb
>> > Jack
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