Honestly folks, I'm sick of the attitude of "The future is nigh, the mystic portal awaits! V6 is coming!" as an excuse for we *MUST* change things related to this.
We've been hearing the mystic portal awaits for 15 years - and yet MANY of us in MANY parts of the world still can not get reasonable v6 connectivity - or it's is substantially worse than v4 for what we normally do. It's not our fault, our providers are useless. I have no problem with having changes to make V6 more usable. but here's what I have a problem with. 1) Here is wonderful V6 diff - many standards idiots of the same type that designed V6 say this is good. Can you show me a down side? My answer to this is simple. No.. We've been bit before. You want me to pay attention to this discussion and encourage that a diff goes in do this instead: 2) Here is a diff that makes V6 better - I'm not talking to you about the standards bodies related to V6 because they are all ivory tower idiots, but it *does* make things better because I've tested it under *these* v6 scenarios and hit helps *AND* I tested it under the default and these normal scenarios WITH ONLY V4, and NOTHING SLOWED DOWN OR GOT FUCKED UP. Having now experienced more than enough "show me a down side" V6 diffs in the tree over the years, I do not want to "show a down side" - PROVE TO ME THERE ISN'T ONE, or go away. On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas <j...@wxcvbn.org> wrote: > Paul de Weerd <we...@weirdnet.nl> writes: > >> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 05:35:13PM +0200, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: >> | > If you're running on a host without IPv6, why would you want >> | > getaddrinfo() to return any IPv6 results? What good would it do to you? >> | >> | What's a regular OpenBSD host with no IPv6? I'd assume that it is >> | a host that can perform IPv6 connections to ::1 / localhost and reach >> | its neighbors through link-local addresses. >> >> Why would you expect to be able to reach your neighbors through >> link-local addresses if you have "no IPv6" (which I take to mean 'no >> *configured* IPv6', please correct me if I'm wrong here)? > > I don't make a big difference between automatically or "manually" > configured addresses. They're here and supposed to be usable for > whatever purpose, limited only by their intrinsic limitations. > >> I believe your expectation here is wrong (although it is the current >> state of IPv6 on OpenBSD). Can you explain why you disagree? > > Not really, I'm puzzled by your question. It works and has always > worked but I shouldn't expect them to work... > >> (sorry to hijack the thread, your remark piqued my interest) >> >> Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd > > -- > jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE >
