Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 04:39:10PM -0500,
>  IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org> 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.

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