Enterprise Dual Stack without IPv6 Transit

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Wed Dec 10 22:14:10 CET 2014


Hi,

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:59:40AM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> The 'whatever is faster' is actually pretty deterministic.
> 
> OSX does it with a magic combo that apparently consists out of latency
> and throughput... and unless somebody figured it out the exact
> parameters are unknown.

Yes, and if you have a well-designed network that has IPv4 follow the
same packet path as IPv6, OSX will happily flip-flop back and forth 
between IPv4 and IPv6 between http request to the same server.

Not overly deterministic, and not helpful when looking for "sometimes
it does not work" errors (like, an Apache ACL mistakenly permitting only
one of the protocols).

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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