On 22 Apr 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: > > The rhetoric would have us believe that frequent renumbering with IPv6 > > is seamless and effortless. I don't personally buy that, but there are > > some assumptions there that perhaps should be challenged more directly > > rather than in this oblique fashion. > > yesterday we had to change an AAAA RR and PTR RR because one of our > servers got a new GigE interface to replace the old FastE. no part > of ipv6 renumbers seamlessly, from where i sit. IPV6 renumbering was guaranteed to always be problematic when the address was defined to include the MAC address of the adapter. A mystery to me from the day I first heard the design but since there is nothing I could do to expect to change the design, I've not bothered to to try and understand the rationale.