Why DJB's plan fail [LWN.net]

Why DJB's plan fail

Posted Jan 28, 2011 0:59 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Why DJB's plan fail by khim
Parent article: LCA: IP address exhaustion and the end of the open net

> Well, duh - but what is your plan?

Here is my plan. I have this program called ping on my system. With it, I can check whether my Internet connection works. I tried it with ipv6.google.com, but it didn't work. I'm pretty sure my connection works (it's been on for many years now). I can also ping pretty much everything out there. So, it must me some kind of a software problem.

I'd like to get a series of software upgrades so that my connection works with ipv6.google.com. Yeah, I know - I can't get that. It was a rhetorical request anyway.

So, back to the real world. My plan is to wait and see. Maybe my ISP will do something so that I can really see IPv6 world without wasting hours and hours on currently useless effort of enabling IPv6. Maybe I won't need to because they'll just whack several layers of NAT in between. I dunno.

Or maybe they'll tell me I have to do all this useless work after all. I'll have to "connect again" although I have a perfectly good connection.

That's my plan. Pretty much anything goes. Isn't it grand?

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Why DJB's plan fail

Posted Jan 28, 2011 1:33 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

> I'd like to get a series of software upgrades so that my connection works with ipv6.google.com. Yeah, I know - I can't get that.

Actually, you can. If someone made a software upgrade which installed and enabled teredo (which needs no configuration to work), your connection would work with ipv6.google.com. On Windows, there is no need to install teredo at all, just enable it - and I heard some Bittorrent clients did enable it for you automatically. And teredo works perfectly with ipv6.google.com.

Why DJB's plan fail

Posted Jan 28, 2011 1:57 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

OK, one problem solved. And people will then be able to access my IPv4 addressed site too over IPv6? My firewall will work? And all my services will be reconfigured? I think not.

Why DJB's plan fail

Posted Jan 28, 2011 2:53 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> OK, one problem solved.

Actually, scrap that. The ping would not have come from my IPv4 address, so it doesn't really count.