Slow WiFi with Android Marshmallow & IPv6?

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Wed Apr 27 09:59:43 CEST 2016


Hi,

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 09:37:05AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> But we could discuss whether it currently makes sense to support DNS
> queries over IPv6 at all. Doubling the number of resolver addresses is
> not necessarily good.  I believe most consider 2 addresses optimal in
> IPv4 only deployments.  Resolver libraries are notorioulsy bad at
> fail-over, so there isn't really any point in more that that.  And you'd
> better make both addresses always be up and responding. Adding 2 more
> addresses is only adding trouble.  So why do we do that?  To be nice to
> all the IPv6 only devices out there?  Right...

So we can eventually turn off IPv4...

"IPv6 is hard, let's go fishing instead" isn't the proper way forward.

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

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