Reply to post: Re: IPv6 is fundamentally broken

Global IPv4 address drought: Seriously, we're done now. We're done

sean.fr

Re: IPv6 is fundamentally broken

The basic problem is an INTER network problem so it is logical to between the networks and leave the networks untouched. An ISP problem not, not a user problem.

Apps on internal devices do not send IP addresses, they send to names.

They expect the IP stack to resolve the name to an IP address and a MAC.

They do not care if you are using really using ATM or NetBois or MPLS so long as the IP stack is happy.

If your ISP can couple your ISPs DNS to IPv6-IPv4 NAT, THEY can allocate a temporary IPv4 address to the Ipv6 address and sort it out with NAT at the at ISP. It would be invisable to us. We should allow us to keep the investment in apps, knowhow and hardware. The crappy bit can be regroup into a DNS/Firewal application (1U 19inch rack box) if you do not want the ISP to do it. But they already provide DNS, and are running BGP4 routing, plus a lot of stuff not really in my best interests like logging every url I use for the government, blocking sites banned by the government, throttling if I use SSH in Iran.

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