IPv6 end user addressing

Thu Aug 11 03:11:45 UTC 2011

On 11/08/2011, at 12:30 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> Finally a useful post in this thread.  Good work on the deployment of real ipv6!
> 

Thanks. And thanks to Vendor-C for helping us through it.  The IPv6 Broadband
featureset on the ASR platform starting from IOS-XR 3.1 is a vast improvement
on its predecessors.

Biggest hassle with IPv6 in production right now:  DNS support is woefully 
undercooked.  I don't think anyone has put anywhere near as much effort into
making it fluid, user-friendly, and automated.  Simple questions like, "How
are reverse mappings supposed to work when you can't predict an end-user's
address?" have no good answer.  If any systems folks want a nice meaty problem
domain to focus their efforts on, DNS would be da shiznit.

  - mark

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