[members-discuss] why is it proving impossible to gain IP sapce

Hi,

(increasingly off-topic, this really should go to one of the ipv6-ops
lists - recommending http://lists.cluenet.de/mailman/listinfo/ipv6-ops)

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:49:07PM +0000, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
> ofcourse every access provider could ditch ipv4 -right now- with the 
> following mechanism:
> 
> 1: take a /96 of your own ipv6 space
> 
> 2: translate this 1:1 to the entire ipv4 address space
> (dos boxes with packet driver and some assembly/c code, modified linux 
> kernel, programmable logic arrays in a hardware implementation, whatever)

Existing NAT64+DNS64 implementations.  Just install and off you go :-)

> 4: ???
> 
> 5: profit!

6: fail, because you get too many hotline calls that "skype does not work!",
   and large-scale telcos really need to avoid generating hotline calls

> i don't see any out of the box solutions on the market, specificially for 
> the "dns part" tho.

One DNS64 implementation comes as part of BIND9.

> it's not exactly rocket science ppl, get on with it.

To the contrary.  Rockets were built in the 1960s... IPv6 is nearly as
old now, so "IPv6 = rocket science = technology from the last century".

That's one of the amazing parts :-) - the other one is how much energy
is invested into *not* deploying IPv6.

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

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