On 4/09/2008, at 8:54 AM, Donald Neal wrote:
Richard,
Richard Hulse wrote:
With all this talk about IPV6, I was wondering if there is any interest in having some content servers in the V6 space?
Richard Radio NZ
I suspect you'll get only a handful of takers at this stage. But if its a transition Radio NZ is going to have to make at some time anyway, why not?
Because of `broken' IPv6 end hosts that attempt to get tunnelled access to the IPv6 network based on silly assumptions and do not fail gracefully. That, combined with hosts preferring AAAA over A (in many cases) = pain. Luckily, many streaming systems have "primary" URLs and "secondary" URLs, so if that sort of thing is supported by their streaming platform then it would work fine - assuming the "secondary" URL only has an A record on it. Sounds like mixed messages from me on the v6 front - combined message: If you're a content provider, do v6, but understand it well and have ways to test if it breaks things. Don't just turn it on and assume it'll work. Google are doing this by setting up opt-in IPv6 (ipv6.google.com) for now. They have ways to test breakage as well. You can use javascript to test breakage - or better, what is likely to break before you even consider a v6 roll out.[1] -- Nathan Ward [1] Implementation here: http://www.braintrust.co.nz/ipv6wwwtest/