DoD IP Space

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Fri Feb 5 22:37:25 UTC 2021


WebOS implemented IPv6 in 3.8 IIRC.

Owen


> On Jan 22, 2021, at 15:30 , Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> wrote:
> 
> The KB indicates that the problem is with the "LG TV WebOS 3.8 or above."
> 
> Doug
> 
> (not speaking for any employers, current or former)
> 
> 
> On 1/22/21 12:42 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
>> Disney should hire some proper developers and QA team.
>> RFC 1123 instructed developers to make sure your products handled multi-homed servers properly and dealing with one of the addresses being unreachable is part of that.  It’s not like the app can’t attempt to a stream from the IPv6 address and if there is no response in 200ms start a parallel attempt from the IPv4 address.  If the IPv6 stream succeeds drop the IPv4 stream  Happy Eyeballs is just a specific case of multi-homed servers.
>> QA should have test scenarios where the app has a dual stack network and the servers are silently untraceable over one then the other transport.  It isn’t hard to do.  Dealing with broken networks is something every application should do.



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