[olug] DNS lookups lagging?

[DYNATRON tech]

i like NAT.
one public IP address per location seems very reasonable for residential
use.
i don't want things like my toaster to be globally routable.

next thing you know, somebody in nigeria is stealing my toast.


On 8/26/08, Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Didn't we hash this through less than a year ago?
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 25 August 2008 21:40:31 DYNATRON tech wrote:
> >> i don't see any personal benefit to IP6 anyhow, so i'm gonna go old
> school.
> >> i've been hearing for the last 10 years how IP addresses are running
> out,
> >> and IP6 is the future, but it still seems like hype to me. IP4 works
> just
> >> fine for me right now, so i'm sticking with it.
> >
> > Ah, but do you have globally routable IPv4 addresses on every
> > computer/device/toaster?
> > Or do you need to depend on an ugly hack known as NAPT (also erroneously
> > called NAT) to fit a bunch of private addresses onto a single globally
> > routable one?
> >
> > With IPv6, consumers get a nice large (1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176
> > addresses) /48 subnet by default. What's more is that a /48 is
> automatically
> > routed to every IPv4 address: so anything in 2002:0102:0304::/48 gets
> routed
> > to the IPv4 1.2.3.4.
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