On Mar 4, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Fred Baker wrote: > On Mar 4, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Keith Moore wrote: > >> As it happens, I regularly ssh into my laptop from elsewhere using IPv6. >> Soon I expect to be doing it from my phone. Especially given that the vast >> majority of Internet hosts will soon be mobile hosts of some kind or >> another, I don't see why such hosts should be limited to running apps that >> don't need to accept inbound traffic. > > What in all this prevents them from doing so? > > You appear to keep, in your thinking, equating NPTv6 with NAT44. They are > actually different, and have different effects. There is no reason whatsoever > that an IPv6 host behind an NPTv6 translator can't offer services. To offer a > service, with or without NPTv6, it will have to keep DNS (and any other name > service it is using) informed of its current address. In the case that NPTv6 > is in use, that service will have to be a little smarter, interpolating from > that what other addresses might be relevant.
How is my laptop, when it does the DNS dynamic update, supposed to know that it has an external address, and what that address is, so it can include an AAAA record for it? Keith _______________________________________________ nat66 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nat66
