On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 21:36 -0500, Ross Walker wrote:
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. 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?
No, IPv6 uses the neighbor discovery protocol; which is in many ways superior to ARP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbor_Discovery_Protocol
A lot of people will freak out - but once they get used to NDP instead of ARP...