On 08/12/10 03:36, Ross Walker wrote:
On Dec 7, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 20:37 -0500, Ross Walker wrote:
On Dec 7, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:
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I can only image phonetically calling these off on a support call, I'd get half way through it and the other end would tell me to "forget it I'll wait until DNS is working again".
You aren't crippled currently when DNS doesn't work? Because e-mail, Active Directory / Kerberos, and numerous other services just-don't-work without functioning DNS anyway. I'd say the network-minus-DNS is pretty much irrelevant in the real world.
Well, there is DNS down and there is DNS issues causing some sites problems. These may or may not be due to our DNS servers, you get the idea.
The problem with DNS being down is just as critical on IPv4 as with IPv6. The only difference is that it's a lot easier to remember or type IPv4 addresses ... at least now until we're really getting used to IPv6 addresses.
By all means, DNS will be much more critically important in IPv6 though - as not everyone will be able to remember IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses.
When your on your router or switch, want to traceroute or find out what port an address is on... Is there even ARP with v6?
Nope, ARP is gone. But it gets a replacement as a part of IPv6, instead of ARP being an addition to IPv4.
http://itkia.com/how-to-arp-a-in-ipv6/ http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_TCPIPIPv6NeighborDiscoveryProtocolND.htm
kind regards,
David Sommerseth