From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 12:29:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE7D1065673 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:29:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B88578FC18 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:29:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JXbhh-00072X-FU for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:29:37 +0000 Received: from 195.208.174.178 ([195.208.174.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:29:37 +0000 Received: from vadim_nuclight by 195.208.174.178 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:29:37 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Vadim Goncharov Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:29:30 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Nuclear Lightning @ Tomsk, TPU AVTF Hostel Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <20080305083930.Q37745@shell.xecu.net> <20080305160143.GA28941@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <1204771612.13169.16.camel@tremelay> X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.208.174.178 X-Comment-To: Michael Gratton User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Sender: news Subject: Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: vadim_nuclight@mail.ru List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:29:41 -0000 Hi Michael Gratton! On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:46:52 +1100; Michael Gratton wrote about 'Re: INET6 -- and why I don't use it': >> * I have never liked how IPv6 denotes its addresses by using colon- >> delimited hexadecimal strings. > The glib answer would be "and this is why we have the DNS". Yes it is > more typing and/or talking, but that's the price to pay for a larger > address space. Anyway, just do what we do when relating v4 addresses: > don't pronounce the delimiter. DNS is for users, but admins deal with plain IP addresses much more often - imagine a case of DNS failure, for example - and routine failure will become much more pain in the ass. And dependence on DNS for public IPSEC keys even if addresses are known - is not good. -- WBR, Vadim Goncharov. ICQ#166852181 mailto:vadim_nuclight@mail.ru [Moderator of RU.ANTI-ECOLOGY][FreeBSD][http://antigreen.org][LJ:/nuclight]