Subj : Re: Nodes location. Funny statistics.
To : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Nick Boel
Date : Wed Aug 06 2025 05:20 pm
Hey Michiel!
On Wed, Aug 06 2025 03:20:58 -0500, you wrote:
> In the past, in the IPv4 only age, some providers here offered
> customers xxxx.provider.nl as a host name linked to their static IPv4
> address. xxxx was for he customer to choose. That practise stopped
> over a decade ago and I do not see how that could be extended to IPv6
> to "work out of the box". For IPv6 there usually is k\just one IP
> address and it points to the to of the customer's NAT. That would not
> work "out of the box" for running a server because the customer still
> had to configure a port forwward and possibly puncj hols in firewalls
> but it could be a start. Fo IPv6 there is not a single IP adres for
> the whole system. There is no way the provider would know what IPv6
> address to proconfigure for it to "work out of the box".
So what you're saying here is, there is no possibly way someone could advertise an AAAA record without them manually configuring it at their DNS provider?
> So the question "if the sysop is unaware that he/she has IPv6, where
> do these AAAA records come from" remains unanswered.
That's the same question I'm hung up on then.
> Possibly. So these nodes have become zombie nodes for all intents an
> puposes?
I imagine there's quite a few. Did the most recent report from Dmitry show about 25% of Fidonet participants are dead wood? ;)
> So have I. I have no idea what we can do to remedie the situation.
I'm not so sure we can.
Regards,
Nick
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