[AusNOG] Prediction: Google et. al. may artificially penalise IPv4 clients

[Mark Andrews]

In message <alpine.DEB.2.11.1705021054000.10507 at motsugo.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>, James Andrewartha writes:
> On Tue, 2 May 2017, Geoff Huston wrote:
> 
> > SLAAC and RDNSS and DHCP6 is a chaotic mess.
> 
> Perhaps not relevant for residential users, but there's one Android 
> developer who refuses to support DHCPv6[1], which stops it working on some 
> enterprise networks. And Windows 10 only added RDNSS support in the most 
> recent update, which came out less than a month ago.
 
And for home users they will be dual stacked in the home for years
to come even if the external link is IPv6 only using one of the
various methods to deliver IPv4 as a service.  DNS servers can be
configured by DHCPv4.

> [1] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085 now requires a Google 
> account for no good reason. I recommend reading it though if you like to 
> see how one man can single-handedly prevent technical progress to more 
> than a billion devices through sheer stubbornness.
> 
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