DoD IP Space

Mon Feb 15 15:49:50 UTC 2021

On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 22:25:56 -0800, William Herrin said:

> This particular problem could be quickly resolved if the OSes still
> getting updates were updated to default name resolution to prioritize
> the IPv4 addresses instead. That would allow broken IPv6
> configurations to exist without breaking the user's entire Internet
> experience. Which would allow them to leave it turned on so that it
> resumes working when the error is eventually found and fixed.

Oh, come on Bill.  This ain't your first rodeo.  You know damned well
that if we do that, the errors are in fact *not* eventually found and fixed.

In addition, if you do that, even once the error is fixed, the box will
not know about that and will continue to use the IPv4 addresses.