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Re: IPv6 and DNS



William Hopkins (we.hopkins@gmail.com on 2011-07-12 17:29 -0400):
> On 07/12/11 at 08:50pm, Arno Schuring wrote:
> > As of this moment, it is not recommended to run IPv6-only networks,
> > dual-stack is preferred. Not in the least because most of the
> > Internet is not yet reachable over v6 (sadly...). The best way to
> > go forward is to get IPv6 running in basic mode first
> > (autoconfiguration), and then start moving more services on IPv6
> > once you feel confident -- but take a *good* look at firewalling
> > rules before you do so.
> 
> Who doesn't recommend it? It's almost impossible at this moment, but
> not recommended not to if you can. 
Ok, fair enough. Let's rephrase that as "I wouldn't recommend you to go
IPv6-only right now, because most of the Internet still operates on
IPv4 and going IPv6-only is almost impossible at this moment".

> And just because you have to keep IPv4 around to reach non-IPv6
> internet resources is *no reason* to ignore the perfectly working
> native IPv6 solutions to OPs problems.
I wasn't ignoring them, see the rest of my message.


Regards,
Arno


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