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IPv6 and CDN's
From: Marco Davids via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 13:40:42 +0200
Hi!We currently live in times where is actually fun to go IPv6-only. In my case, as in: running a FreeBSD kernel compiled without the IPv4-stack.
A few years back doing such thing was mostly disappointing, but nowadays is actually quite doable and entertaining.
So, the other day I decided to take this experiment to the next level by disconnecting my local resolver from IPv4 as well.
Then things started to break. LinkedIn, Bing, Openstreetmap... Although they all work great on IPv6-only, now they no longer did.
It turns out that there underlying CDN's with domain names such as ‘l-msedge.net’ and ‘trafficmanager.net’ (Microsoft) or 'fastly.net', that reside on authoritative name servers that *only* have an IPv4 address.
I guess my question is simple: Why?Are there good architectural reason for this? Or is it just something that is overlooked and forgotten about?
I would love to find out! Thank you. -- MarcoThis is also fun by the way. Look at that nice banner on https://clintonwhitehouse2.archives.gov/ :-)
Current thread:
- IPv6 and CDN's Marco Davids via NANOG (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's Jens Link (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's Marco Davids via NANOG (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's Marco Davids via NANOG (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's Lukas Tribus (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's Marco Davids via NANOG (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's Mark Tinka (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's Matthew Walster (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's Jens Link (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's Job Snijders via NANOG (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's Bryan Fields (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's tim () pelican org (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's Mark Tinka (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 and CDN's Bryan Fields (Oct 22)