Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:37:52 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: FreeBSD-Current List <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: INET6 in world Message-ID: <20030805163752.GA79120@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030804140822.GU6331@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <3F2D1713.9060806@liwing.de> <20030803181735.GC6331@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030804152951.J54895@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20030804140822.GU6331@cicely12.cicely.de>
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:08:23PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > That's chicken/egg - IPv6 never will be widely used if everyone thinks > that way. > The sense is to break this dependency loop by ecouraging everyone to > use it and not to make it easier to completely disable the support. > As I said: you -always- have an IPv6 connection to the outside world > as long as you have a single official IPv4 address. > Not using it because it doesn't fit in your current network is one > point, but disabling it in a way to make a future step to IPv6 > harder is another. > The number of IPv4 only systems is already big enough - we don't need > to build new ones. Machanism, not policy. I would also like to run with NO_INET6. IPv6 support has done nothing for me other than cause me problems. I still strongly disagree with our ordering of localhost in /etc/hosts. My system worked worlds better when I put the IPv4 localhost first. We don't want to kill IPv6 support in FreeBSD -- we both fully know there are areas of the world where is it a very useful if not mandatory thing. However that isn't the case for the USA yet, and I'm guessing Germany also. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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