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Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications"....
From: Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:22 +1100
In message <51099C0F.5040507 () mtcc com>, Michael Thomas writes:
On 01/30/2013 01:51 PM, Cutler James R wrote:On Jan 30, 2013, at 12:43 PM, joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com> wrote:As a product of having a motorola sb6121 and a netgear wndr3700 both of which I bought at frys I have ipv6 in my house with dhcp pd curtesy of commcast . If it was any simpler somebody else would have had to install it.Except that Apple Airport Extreme users must have one of the newer hardwareversions, that is my experience as well.And, even before Comcast and new AEBS, Hurricane Electric removed all otherexcuses for claiming "no IPv6". "Remove excuses" != "Create incentive". There are an infinite number of things I can do to "remove excuses". Unless they're in my face (read: causing me headaches), they do not "create incentive". My using my or my company's software which doesn't work in my own environment (= work, home, phone, etc) "creates incentive". Lecturing me about how I can get a HE tunnel and that if I don't i'm ugly and my mother dresses me funny, otoh, just "creates vexation ". Mike
Just having IPv6 doesn't create incentives to make their code work with IPv6. People just trundle along using IPv4. Turning off IPv4 creates incentives. Reducing IPv4's capabilities creates incentives. Being told this needs to work and be tested with IPv6 creates incentives. Broken networks get people to fix things. Unfortunately most developers don't test with broken networks. If they did "Happy Eyeballs" would not have happened. The applications would have coped with only some address of a multi-homed server working. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka () isc org
Current thread:
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... joel jaeggli (Jan 30)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... Cutler James R (Jan 30)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... Michael Thomas (Jan 30)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... Mark Andrews (Jan 30)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... Michael Thomas (Jan 30)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... David Barak (Jan 30)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... Mark Andrews (Jan 30)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... David Barak (Jan 30)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... Justin M. Streiner (Jan 30)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... Mark Andrews (Jan 30)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... David Barak (Jan 31)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... Robert Drake (Jan 31)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... Mark Andrews (Jan 30)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... Cutler James R (Jan 30)
- Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications".... Justin M. Streiner (Jan 30)