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Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:43:48 +0200
On 17-sep-2007, at 19:06, Martin Hannigan wrote:
Getting back to my original discussion with Barrett, what should we do about naming? I initially though that segregating v6 in a subdomain was a good idea, but if this is truly a migration, v4 should be the interface segregated.
For debugging purposes, it's always good to have blah.ipvX.example.com, but the real question is: do you feel comfortable adding AAAA records to your production domain names? Although I've been running that way for years and I've had only one or two complaints during that time, I can see how someone could be worried about reduced performance over IPv6 (it's still slower than IPv4 a lot of the time because of tunnel detours etc) or even timeouts when advertised IPv6 connectivity doesn't work for someone, such as a Vista user with a public IPv4 address behind a firewall that blocks protocol 41.
Then again, I'm guessing that few people type www.ipv6.google.com rather than www.google.com. And with stuff like mail, where you set up the server names once and forget about it, it's even worse.
So... I'd say: gain some experience with a service that is important enough that people will complain when things are slow, but not important enough that bad things happen if you don't fix the issue for them. For instance, you could host the page with all the NOC contact info on a domain with an AAAA record. :-)
Current thread:
- Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?), (continued)
- Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 21)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 15)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Martin Hannigan (Sep 15)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Andy Davidson (Sep 16)
- How do applications handle IPv6 and IPv4 dual-stacked (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?) Jeroen Massar (Sep 16)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 16)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Adrian Chadd (Sep 16)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Andy Davidson (Sep 16)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Stephen Satchell (Sep 16)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Martin Hannigan (Sep 17)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 17)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Martin Hannigan (Sep 17)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? John Curran (Sep 17)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? John Curran (Sep 17)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 17)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Jeroen Massar (Sep 17)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Barrett Lyon (Sep 17)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Martin Hannigan (Sep 17)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Jeroen Massar (Sep 18)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? David Conrad (Sep 18)
- ipv6/v4 naming nomenclature [Was: Apple Air...] Barrett Lyon (Sep 19)