Re: IETF: v6 works, v4 is broken
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Re: IETF: v6 works, v4 is broken



On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:28:30AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <20030318052317.GA24552 at real.com>, Tom Marshall writes:
> >
> 
> >>=20
> >> Browser issue?
> >
> >No, I verified with this:
> >
> >  $ telnet www.rfc-editor.org 80
> >  Trying 3ffe:801:1000:0:2d0:b7ff:c0de:3...
> >  Connected to www.rfc-editor.org.
> >  Escape character is '^]'.
> >  GET / HTTP/1.0
> >
> >  [... wait a couple minutes ...]
> >  ^]
> >  telnet> q
> >  Connection closed.
> >
> >My IPv6 address is 2001:460:410:8128::/64.
> 
> Odd -- that exact sequence, using telnet, worked for me.  (I'm running 
> NetBSD 1.6.1_RC2, if that matters.)

Perhaps it is the OS.  I'm using Linux 2.4.21-pre5.  Are there known issues
with the Linux 2.4 IPv6 implementation?

I also have 2.4.20 on this machine, perhaps I'll try that (there was an IPv6
update in the prerelease).

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