On 21 January 2016 at 19:42, Matthew D. Hardeman <mhardeman@ipifony.com> wrote:
An excellent point. Nobody would tolerate this in IPv4 land. Those disputes tended to end in days and weeks (sometimes months), but not years.
That said, as IPv6 is finally gaining traction, I suspect we’ll be seeing less tolerance for this behavior.
Nope. Most user-facing apps are in support of Happy Eyeballs. When Facebook's FB.ME was down on IPv6 just a short while ago in 2013, it took DAYS for anyone to notice. http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2013-May/005571.html Lots of popular sites publish AAAA with non-reachable services all the time, and still noone notices to this day. The old school command line tools are the only ones affected. One may also notice it with `ssh -D` SOCKS5 proxying, but only if one's browser doesn't decide to leak out hostname resolution and operate directly with IPv4-addresses to start with, like Chrome does. Cheers, Constantine.SU.