On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 7:49 AM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 22:25:56 -0800, William Herrin said:
This particular problem could be quickly resolved if the OSes still getting updates were updated to default name resolution to prioritize the IPv4 addresses instead. That would allow broken IPv6 configurations to exist without breaking the user's entire Internet experience. Which would allow them to leave it turned on so that it resumes working when the error is eventually found and fixed.
Oh, come on Bill. This ain't your first rodeo. You know damned well that if we do that, the errors are in fact *not* eventually found and fixed.
I don't know that and neither do you. That remains an untested theory. What I do know, with the perfection of 20/20 hindsight, is that v6-first has impeded deployment for two decades by routinely giving folks a reason to turn IPv6 back off. Hard headed. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin bill@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/