Subj : Relay6
To   : Bj”rn Felten
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Wed Nov 26 2014 01:11:34

Hello Bj”rn,

On Wednesday November 26 2014 00:30, you wrote to Kees van Eeten:

 BF>    Relay6 is just a ploy to get IPv6 working.

There are already mailers around for both Windos and *nix that can do it without that ploy...

 BF>    There are 824 binkp nodes in the present nodelist.

How many of those are active?

 BF>  Every single one of them could have IPv6 years ago, but only 22 so
 BF> far.

By the same reasoning Radius or any other popular mailers could have been upgraded to do IPv6 all by itself years ago. That didn't happen either.

 BF>    If I would bet on what comes first -- IPv6 is a must in Fidonet or
 BF> someone fixes Argus/Radius/Taurus so it'll be IPv6 compliant, I'm not
 BF> sure I would win on the former.

I am not taking the bet, as I said, I am a lousy forecaster, I do not know what will happen first. What I do know is that I did not want to wait any longer for someone to fix may favorite mailer so that I did not have to make any significant changes to my configuration to become a member of the Fidonet IPv6 club.

So I took the plunge and went for the "right solution": the mailer that does IPv6 all by itself and if that meant a major system change, so be it.

The major system change gave me an opportunity to do a major system clean up as well. Lots of old, no longer needed stuff went to the bit bucket. I do not regret it.


Cheers, Michiel

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