World IPv6 Only Day.

Paul Graydon paul at paulgraydon.co.uk
Thu Jun 9 03:37:30 UTC 2011


Dumb question.. what does the switch (L2) have to do with IPv6 (L3), or 
is it one of those 'somewhere in between the two' things?

Paul

On 6/8/2011 1:08 PM, fredrik danerklint wrote:
> Well, that's another problem.
>
> To make a long story short, the network (not mine and I don't have any kind of
> control over that either) that my customers (including me) are using, did put
> in new equipment (a switch) over a year ago and after that I lost my IPv6
> connection that I had previously. That switch does not support IPv6 it turns
> out.
>
> This is exactly the things that the customers really need to better understand
> and why it's not gonna work for them.
>
>
> You did miss a thing:
>
> $ dig mx fredan.se
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> fredan.se.              3597    IN      MX      10 mail.fredan.se.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> mail.fredan.se.         3597    IN      A       77.105.235.102
> mail.fredan.se.         3597    IN      AAAA    2001:4db8:e001:ffff:2::17
>
> So I do have a IPv6 connection but not to my customers.
>
>>> How about that one?
>>>
>>> (Please reply to the mailing list only)
>> You wouldn't be posting to the list... :-)
>>
>> Received: from [77.105.232.43] (port=53699 helo=fredan-pc.localnet)
>> 	by mail.fredan.se with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256)
>> 	(Exim 4.71) (envelope-from<fredan-nanog at fredan.se>)
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>> 	for nanog at nanog.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:31:32 +0200





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