Subj : FidoNews submission
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Gerrit Kuehn
Date : Wed Jun 04 2025 08:09 pm

Hello Michiel!

04 Jun 25 11:06, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:

 MvdV> Then we seem to have different - incompatible - notions of the 
 MvdV> concepts of "large" and "small".

Maybe. For me, "large" is the stuff I deal with at work.

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

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


Regards,
Gerrit

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