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RE: ipv6/v4 naming nomenclature [Was: Apple Air...]
From: <michael.dillon () bt com>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:41:11 +0100
Don't come up with any other variants. The above form iswhat is ingeneral use around the internet and what some people will at least try to use in cases where a DNS label has both an AAAA andA and oneof them doesn't work.
Where did the www.ipv6 and www.ipv4 "standard" come from?
He already explained that as quoted above. It is a de-facto standard since that is what is in general use around the Internet. Standards are not always created by standards groups, sometimes they just grows, like Topsy. The key thing here is that adding AAAA records for a host that also has an A record, can cause strange things to happen. If this would be bad for the services offered by the host with the A record, then you can create two new pseudo-hosts ipv6.host and ipv4.host. Put the AAAA record only on the ipv6.host entry, and make the ipv4.host entry either a duplicate of, or a CNAME to the original host with the A record. That way, you can still get some IPv6 traffic from IPv6 knowledgeable people for testing purposes. Or you can solicit people to help with your testing by using the ipv6.host variant. --Michael Dillon
Current thread:
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?, (continued)
- 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)
- Re: ipv6/v4 naming nomenclature [Was: Apple Air...] Jeroen Massar (Sep 19)
- RE: ipv6/v4 naming nomenclature [Was: Apple Air...] michael.dillon (Sep 20)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? JORDI PALET MARTINEZ (Sep 24)
- Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems? Martin Hannigan (Sep 16)