Comment 114 for bug 417757
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| Gregory Burd (gregburd) wrote Re: [Bug 417757] Re: [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups | #114 |
@ Martin Pit - Excellent points and I see where the RH solution is not the
best for some obvious technical reasons (Doh! I didn't think that one
completely through, my mistake). Thanks for pointing that out to me.
@ Bernhard Schmidt - I too would like to gently move people forward, to have
ISPs and users replace "broken" equipment and to transition everyone to
IPv6. The reality is that this is a transition period and we need to deal
with a situation where we have a foot in both worlds. Clearly this
situation causes pain on both sides of the fence. The libc6 patch you
mention seems like a reasonable approach, maybe there is even a way to
improve it, and one that might get us through this intermediate stage. Once
IPv6 capable hardware is in the majority and I can call up any old ISP and
ask for IPv6 service (or better yet, not even have to make that call) then
we're past the tipping point and we don't have to keep the workaround patch
around. We're not there today.
@ Jeremy Visser - You are passionate and persuasive in your arguments. This
is not an discussion about who's at fault or how much time we have before
"the apocalypse", we need to separate passion from this discussion and move
on to fixing the problem. I'm simply trying to find a way to bring people
over to the IPv6 world without creating and equally dispassionate anti-IPv6
crowd along the way (take @ Jonzer's response as an example).
There is no need to be absolutists on this issue one way or the other.
There has to be a technical solution that lets us live in the middle
ground, lets just engineer around this and get past the political bickering.
:-)
I hope this helps,
-greg