From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 05:36:25 +0700 [thread overview]
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On Mar 9, 2013 4:51 AM, "Kevin Chadwick" <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > >> 1. The craziness of trying to conserve IPv4 space
> > >> 2. NAT. Finally, a good solid techical reason to make NAT just go
away
> > >> and stay away. Permanently. Forever.
> > >
> > > It's a great shame that isn't all it fixed (ipv5), then your job
> > > wouldn't have been so hard and there wouldn't be any reason for many
of
> > > us to cling to ipv4 of which there are many strong reasons that are
far
> > > far worse than NAT.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > IPv5 never really existed.
> >
> >
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2003/06/what_ever_happened_to_ipv5.html
>
> First I've heard of ST or an actual ipv5 but sounds like they had
> dropped a layer. Having options like tcp or udp is a good thing.
>
> What would have been best, could have been done years ago and not cost
> lots of money and even more in security breaches and what I meant by
> ipv5 and would still be better to switch to even today with everyone
> being happy to switch to it is simply ipv4 with more bits for address
> space.
>
> If I got an ISP who only offers me IPV6 I would drop the ISP before the
> IPV4!
>
Unfortunately, your logic is flawed.
Where would you put the additional bits of address?
That would involve rewriting the IP Header.
And while we're at it, why not *totally* remake IP based on decades of
observation & experience?
Hence, IPv6.
Rgds,
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-07 22:24 [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file? Alan McKinnon
2013-03-07 23:50 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-08 0:29 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-08 8:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-08 13:40 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-08 13:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-08 19:50 ` [Bulk] " Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-08 19:55 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-08 21:49 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-08 22:36 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2013-03-09 0:50 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-09 3:27 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-09 12:53 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-10 21:28 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-11 23:09 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-12 5:05 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-09 0:13 ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-09 0:41 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-10 1:42 ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-10 4:59 ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-03-10 21:09 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-10 5:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-10 21:07 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-10 21:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-10 22:02 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-11 4:00 ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-11 4:37 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-11 8:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-11 22:45 ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-11 23:39 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-12 3:58 ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-12 0:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-12 2:02 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-12 11:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-13 0:26 ` [Bulk] " Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-11 23:31 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-12 0:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-09 0:45 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-09 3:21 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-09 12:53 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-10 22:00 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-11 1:56 ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-03-11 2:33 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-11 22:34 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-12 3:36 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-08 15:39 ` Florian Philipp
2013-03-08 4:30 ` Pandu Poluan
2013-03-08 8:23 ` Alan McKinnon
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