The IPv6 Travesty that is Cogent's refusal to peer Hurricane Electric - and how to solve it

Matthew D. Hardeman mhardeman at ipifony.com
Sat Jan 23 02:02:35 UTC 2016


While I agree it’s still going to be a while before it becomes a critical issue, more and more environments are going IPv6 first with IPv4 as a NAT’ed service…

I think the mobile carriers are going to be the ones to really push adoption.

> On Jan 22, 2016, at 7:53 PM, Constantine A. Murenin <mureninc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 21 January 2016 at 19:42, Matthew D. Hardeman <mhardeman at ipifony.com> wrote:
>> An excellent point.  Nobody would tolerate this in IPv4 land.  Those disputes tended to end in days and weeks (sometimes months), but not years.
>> 
>> That said, as IPv6 is finally gaining traction, I suspect we’ll be seeing less tolerance for this behavior.
> 
> Nope.  Most user-facing apps are in support of Happy Eyeballs.
> 
> When Facebook's FB.ME was down on IPv6 just a short while ago in 2013,
> it took DAYS for anyone to notice.
> 
>  http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2013-May/005571.html
> 
> Lots of popular sites publish AAAA with non-reachable services all the
> time, and still noone notices to this day.
> 
> The old school command line tools are the only ones affected.  One may
> also notice it with `ssh -D` SOCKS5 proxying, but only if one's
> browser doesn't decide to leak out hostname resolution and operate
> directly with IPv4-addresses to start with, like Chrome does.
> 
> Cheers,
> Constantine.SU.




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