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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:47:01 -0700
From:      Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
To:        Ultima <ultima@ultimasbox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IPv6-only network--is NAT64+DNS64 really this easy now?
Message-ID:  <19784363-6543-ccc1-b13f-5f1a67dc10d1@bluerosetech.com>
In-Reply-To: <CANJ8om6WmNQWibnSCMR2hf09he-wWBUnBmY5Mnn7%2BNtvUHhcBQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2019-06-24 19:33, Ultima wrote:
> Hello Mel,
> 
>   While it may be possible to have an IPv6 only environment, I don't
> think it is really viable. There are simply too many things that don't run
> on or have very limited support for IPv6 that it makes it very hard
> to drop IPv4 altogether and until something comes along forcing the
> move it likely won't happen for at least another decade at the minimum.

Yes, that is why I wrote "Waving a hand at bug-hunting and lamentations 
over the inertia of embedded systems designers".

This a lab experiment specifically to iron out the very wrinkles you 
just stated.

> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 6:50 PM Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking to set up a pure-IPv6 environment to test the viability of
>> it.  I tried this a few years ago and fell flat on my face due to the
>> lack of NAT64 and DNS64 support.
>>
>> Reading through docs now, it looks like unbound has a DNS64 module, and
>> NAT64 is baked into ipfw.  Waving a hand at bug-hunting and lamentations
>> over the inertia of embedded systems designers, has it really become
>> this easy to turn up an IPv6-only site?



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