From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QV3LJ-0008Co-Hs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:09:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 285D61C0C7 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:09:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B1D1C023 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:30:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so2527127wyi.40 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:30:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=GCmHUX4urj7IbTwz5rWka2xdCE2E+4Op1wGWQ4jb+lQ=; b=NqmZtXxRXohf5tpiV9/L4BQWlPUi0Rm9ToRMeJ9P/iqUH297ew49Wal84mHKPNeqMP tXLy1nVoo8oyI+f+m+WROVZiuoYV3ETUM21xBDzr+Te0VAkzuA8I19WAp0BRh0Wvx+UC 1DHBqpUGzsQv5DPaHZb3ncEu8p+fDJPOUvyVs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=lhbFsji0M8PciyhJhkwxB4dM4A8y6mYUYomJzle5DkaEmw2yvraJoDSJllz50ab732 c42dQdQ0LXa+kBJq+4aH7M1s6TRS+n4q2BX/CeG8pRf4qbC6Y8/b2/b/XRFsE9RfwEIq aWOa1iBY30i91kCjyuw11cNNYVrhZUCaQkXSw= Received: by 10.216.46.21 with SMTP id q21mr965335web.113.1307716258468; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:30:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m8sm2072494wbh.11.2011.06.10.07.30.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:30:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:30:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <1411735.7Wzxds3ylK@eve> In-Reply-To: <1411735.7Wzxds3ylK@eve> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106101630.17137.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d070827944506ad315d9cf05f75b24f0 Apparently, though unproven, at 15:17 on Friday 10 June 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: > On Friday 10 June 2011 17:08:40 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 14:22, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > On Friday 10 June 2011 08:52:15 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > >> -original message- > > >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 not ready here; Hmmm > > >> From: Paul Hartman > > >> Date: 2011-06-10 03:52 > > >> > > >> >And another bonus is that there are plenty of > > >> > > >> funny things we can spell in hexadecimal. ;) > > >> > > >> While I'm sure I'll tag the C001:D00D address for my workstation, I'm > > >> not sure upper management will appreciate me naming some servers > > >> DEAD:BEEF or BAD:D06 or A55:401E ... :-P > > > > > > If you don't tell them and, when they do notice, tell them that > > > changing the IPs is not recommended due to possible issues with the > > > installed software, you might get away with that. > > > > > > Although, why reserve those for servers instead of said management? ;) > > > > There's playing with fire, and there's playing with FIRE. :D > > Considering I regularly play with Nitro mixtures and sharp blades spinning > around through the air, playing with FIRE isn't too bad :) > > Besides, how many managers do you have that actually check the IP-addresses > the DHCP server gives their machines "randomly"? :) You have managers that know what an IP address is? Wow.... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com