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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]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGUH-ZtGqpAp+ZasXH8VQrcp4ba6=YQnrkmvro4F=MFfvA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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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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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-08 22:36 UTC|newest]

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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