[arin-ppml] Draft Policy 2011-5: Shared Transition Space for IPv4 Address Extension - IAB comment

[William Herrin]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2011, at 8:14 AM, William Herrin wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Alain Durand <adurand at juniper.net> wrote:
>>> On Jun 29, 2011, at 10:35 AM, William Herrin wrote:
>>>> You'll have to elaborate on that, because while windows firewall makes
>>>> assumptions about what it's allowed to do if it encounters an RFC1918
>>>> address, it makes no assumptions I'm aware of about what it can do
>>>> with an address that isn't. If anything, the ISP choosing to employ
>>>> RFC1918 addresses would cause Windows to incorrectly configure a
>>>> permissive firewall.
>>>
>>> If [public address] then start 6to4
>>
>> Never seen it. And they'd be seriously crazy to enable it by default
>> -- it would cause incredible brokenness even when the assumptions were
>> met.
>
> Sorry it's on by default in windows vista and windows 7...

As a Linux enthusiast, I enjoy tales of Microsoft doing something
ignorant. And truly, what could be more foolish than arranging for
your flagship product to automatically reroute packets through
low-bandwidth volunteer-run 6to4 gateways?

Sadly, I must report the story to be false. My Windows 7 laptop did
not, in fact, install a 6to4 adapter or configure an IPv6 address when
I reprogrammed my DHCP server to give out a global scope IPv4 address.
And the Teredo Tunneling interface remained in state "Media
disconnected." Indeed, only the normal fe80 link local IPv6 address
configured itself on my machine.

You are mistaken sir.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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