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Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)

  • From: Martin Hannigan
  • Date: Fri Sep 21 07:44:45 2007
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On 9/21/07, Mark Andrews <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In article <[email protected]> you write:
> >
> >On 9/15/07, Jeroen Massar <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> [spam: Check http://www.sixxs.net/misc/toys/ for an IPv6 Toy Gallery :)]
> >>
> >> Somewhat long, hopefully useful content follows...
> >>
> >> Barrett Lyon wrote:
> >> [..]
> >
> >[ clip ]
> >
> >> Of course when there is only a A or AAAA only that protocol will be
> >> used. All applications are supposed to use getaddrinfo() which sorts
> >> these addresses per the above specification, the app should then
> >> connect() to them in order, fail/timeout and try the next one till it
> >
> >Since when is a timeout on the Internet ok?  Haven't we moved beyond
> >that?
>
>         You mean to say you get 100% connectivity with IPv4?

I mean to say that I don't willingly set out to deliver < 100%.