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Re: Old / new NAT-PT coexistance?



Speaking strictly for myself, I don't see any reason to believe that NAT-PT is dead. I believe that v6ops doesn't like it, but it is implemented and in use. We all know how folks who are successfully using something automatically turn it off and use something else when we tell them to...

On Jan 30, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

Question for the WG:

Do we care about coexistance of old style and new style NAT-PT?

The new style that Brian and I are working on is going to require changes on the IPv6 side, which won't be made over night: looking up A records by the hosts themselves rather than having a DNS ALG generate synthetic AAAA records for IPv4-only destinations.

The problem is that you would have to provision different DNS resolvers for hosts that are IPv6-only and do not support the new style NAT-PT versus the ones that do and dual stack hosts. This could be a problem. Solution: have hosts that do DNS lookups over IPv6 transport indicate that they support new style NAT-PT and don't need the synthetic AAAA records through EDNS0.

Is this something we want or can we assume that old style NAT-PT is dead so we don't have to consider issues relating to it?