Factors, actions influencing the possibility/timing of IDR for IPv6-basedrouting domains?

Erik Kline ek at google.com
Thu Jun 25 00:13:01 CEST 2009


> The thing I find encouraging are the NAT64 drafts, as they explicitly
> acknowledge and address the fact that v4 may be with us for some time to
> come. That may cause a problem for Google cache links though; you'll see v4
> connections, and send back links with v4 IPs, but the clients will be
> relying on DNS translation that won't happen for web links with raw IPs.
> Good times. :)

I'm not sure of this being a real problem, at least not the situation
you describe.  In your example a client has IPv6-only, and gets to
IPv4 via NAT64 at some point in the network path.  I think in this
scenario we would just serve AAAAs to these IPv6-only networks and
side-step the whole issue.


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