Subject: RE: (ngtrans) The fundamental AutoIPv6 question

From: "Bound, Jim" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:07:43 -0500

just as nit we used A cnames to get to DSTM servers records in AIIH and
that way got v6 records.
the one nit was we had not figured how to do that securely but dnssec
would work.

/jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Moore [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:53 PM
> To: D. J. Bernstein
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: (ngtrans) The fundamental AutoIPv6 question 
> 
> 
> > The whole point is to make existing sites reachable from 
> IPv6 addresses.
> 
> indeed that is the point of 6to4.  the only new idea I've seen here
> is to use A records as a guess of the v6 address of a host.
> it's an interesting idea, and it would work *if* folks could be
> convinced to upgrade their existing hosts to support v6 (and if
> they're not behind NATs, etc.) 
> 
> Keith
>