IPv6 Pain Experiment

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Fri Oct 4 01:18:35 UTC 2019


In article <f287e472-e01d-b578-b30b-a11db308be76 at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> you write:
>Doug Barton wrote:
>
>> Not if you configure your services (like DNS) with static addresses, 
>> which as we've already discussed is not only possible, but easy.

Yup.

>Automatic renumbering involving DNS was important design goal
>of IPv6 with reasons.

News flash: nobody used the A6 RRTYPE which was intended to support
IPv6 renumbering.  In 2002, RFC 3363 made A6 experimental. In 2012,
RFC 6563 made A6 historic.

These days we all use AAAA, and we assign static addresses to our IPv6
servers.

R's,
John




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