Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 04:39:10PM -0500, > IETF Chair <chair@xxxxxxxx> wrote > a message of 29 lines which said: > >> During the IESG/IAOC Plenary at IETF 71, we are going to turn off >> IPv4 support on the IETF network for 30 to 60 minutes. We will >> encourage the audience to use the Internet and determine which >> services that they have come to take for granted remain available. > > If there is no gateway somewhere with an IPv4 address, we will do very > little. > > We performed this experience last month at an IPv6 training in > Nouakchott (Mauritania). The students had only IPv6 connectivity to > the Internet. As Mark Andrews said, we were not able to even resolve > the names with AAAA records because the root does not have IPv6. In > the end, we cheated by adding a DNS gateway (BIND on a machine with an > IPv4 address) and a Web gateway (Apache with mod_proxy on a machine > with an IPv4 address). you could add some AAAA glue to your named.root which in any event I'd do if I were running a recursive nameserver with only v6 transit. > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf