On 04/12/17 04:48, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 04/11/2017 11:42 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 04/10/2017 11:54 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> You mean my ISP does not handle IPv6 correctly, right?
>>> For the short term, is there any harm to stick to IPv4?
>> In my opinion, it is not clear that it is your ISP as there are probably
>> many boxes between your system and the destination. Some owned by your
>> ISP, others not.
>
>
> It's true that there are intermediary routers, but is there really a
> useful distinction between an IPv6 problem in his ISP, and an IPv6
> problem at his ISP's network provider?
Gotta go with Gordon here...to the end user, the problem is at the ISP.
Whether it's with the ISP itself or upstream of the ISP with one of its
providers is up to the ISP to chase down. Most decent ones will as it's
very likely that if it affects one of their customers, it'll affect a
lot of them. I just went through this as a peer of our ISP had a batch
of circular routes in their BGP tables which caused lots of connection
issues for us. Our ISP was clean, their peer was screwed up so they
worked with the peer to get it solved.
I agree with what you and Gordon have said. My statement was just an
overly pedantic (I think there may be a claim of redundancy to be made
about that paring of words) observation about network topology. I
didn't mean to imply that the ISP should not be contacted or be
responsible to helping to track down the source of the problem.
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