Subj : FidoNews submission
To   : Gerrit Kuehn
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Wed Jun 04 2025 21:41:10

Hello Gerrit,

On Wednesday June 04 2025 20:09, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> However. I still don't see how having a large number of so
 MvdV>> called "legacy" devices stops anyone from adding IPv6
 MvdV>> capability to their system.

 GK> They cannot be expected to "just work". Every tried to auto-discover
 GK> your 15-year-old printer on the network? Or using it afterwards when
 GK> you cannot reliably tell if your great "autoconfig" setup gives you A
 GK> or AAAA records on DNS first?

Yes they can. Those legacy (IPv4 only) devices will just continue to work in a Dual Stack environment as they did in an IPv4 only environment.

I think we have reached the point where further discussion will have little or no added value. So let us end it here.


Cheers, Michiel

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