[atlas] Survey results on Atlas open-sourcing

Hi,
On 05.01.2012 13:11, Philip Homburg wrote:
>  On 1/5/12 9:26 , Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina wrote:
> > This is good to hear. I was meaning that according to the FAQ,
> > there seems to be something around IPv6 (not affecting ping6 or
> > traceroute6). See: " Q: I have an IPv6-only network. Will the probe
> > work on it? A: Although the probe itself is IPv6-ready in general,
> > some of the off-the-shelf software components on it are not (yet).
> > We hope that this will be resolved soon, but until then the probe
> > needs IPv4 to communicate with our infrastructure. The measurements
> > themselves can run on IPv6. "
>  The main limiting factor is DNS. For static configurations it should
>  work.
>
>  For normal (dynamic) configuration, the problem is that we have no
>  support for either DHCPv6 or the DNS resolver option in RA. So
>  without IPv4, the probe will not have a DNS resolver.

maybe while waiting for an implementation of dhcpv6 or dns option in RA 
for the nodes you could simple use |fec0:0:0:ffff::1 as fallback. Well, 
it's deprecated but used in a well known OS..

Just an idea, no need for me - I've got ipv4+ipv6 for my node ;)
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