On 2012-02-03 21:37 , -Hammer- wrote:
Thanks Jeroen (and Ryan/Philip/Cameron/Justin/Etc.) for all the online and offline responses. That was fast. The struggle is that I'm having trouble seeing how/why it would matter other than potential latency on the IPv4 side. IPv6 conversations usually involve taking the full table when dealing with multi-homed/multi-site setups. IPv4 I didn't really consider (taking the full table) until I mentioned this to some of my vendors technical folks and it caused a lot of reflection. Not on the L3 part. Just on the DNS part. This appears to be a tough subject area when it comes to V4/V6 deployment strategies. The bottom line is that I'll take whatever the carrier feeds in V6. Just trying to see where I would be missing out by not doing the same in V4. Again, I have the hardware to support it and I really have no reason not to do it. I just want to be able to justify to myself why I'm doing it.
Why you want non-defaults in both IPv4 and IPv6: - more possible paths - less chances of blackholes. And of course, those paths will be more stable and you don't get hot-potato swapping between two defaults. And that in turn allows the Happy Eyeballs mechanisms to do their jobs much better as they keep a history per host or prefix, they assume IPv6 /48's and IPv4 /24's from what I have seen, in some cases. Greets, Jeroen