Clueless national monopoly providers

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On 10 Oct 2014, at 13:45 , Tom Hill <tom at ninjabadger.net> wrote:

> On 10/10/14 14:40, Phil Mayers wrote:
>> $ nc -6 -v www.bt.com 80
>> Ncat: Version 6.40 ( http://nmap.org/ncat )
>> Ncat: Connected to 2a00:2381:ffff::1:80.
>> GET / HTTP/1.0
>> Host: www.bt.com
>> 
>> Ncat: Connection reset by peer.
> 
> Paging Neil McRae...
> 
> Firefox does exactly the same for me here at home, so www.bt.com is
> effectively down until I go and disable IPv6.
> 
> (Not that I'm the target market, but there.)

They also don’t handle other cases (even on IPv4) very well:

% telnet -4 www.bt.com 80
Trying 62.239.186.73...
Connected to www.bt.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /
Connection closed by foreign host.


Whatever load balancer that is, it needs an upgrade and understand g’ol HTTP 0.9 as well in addition to IPv6 ;-)

— 
Bjoern A. Zeeb             "Come on. Learn, goddamn it.", WarGames, 1983