Re: (ngtrans) including ipv4 address space into ipv6 address space

From: D. J. Bernstein (djb_at_no.spam)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 18:33:58 PST


Jeroen Massar writes:
> Example.com is new and only gets a IPv6 subnet from
> RIPE/APNIC/whatever for whatever reason.

At this point they're not connected to the Internet. Pretty damn stupid,
if they actually wanted Internet addresses.

> MX 20 mail-ipv4.example.com.

Okay. With the help of an SMTP proxy having an Internet address, a web
proxy having an Internet address, etc., this company manages to connect
to the Internet. IPv6 is functionally identical to 10.* here.

Now, some people have noticed a little problem with this picture, which
is that there are only a few billion Internet addresses. How would you
suggest solving this problem?

---Dan



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