finding automatic tunnels

[Richard Draves]

> >The initial question was about how to find automatic tunnel end-points.
> >Even if one find which is the Ipv4 address of my boxes, that does not
> >mean that I am ready to offer an automatic tunnel on those. Actually, on
> >almost all my systems, automatic tunnelling is disabled.
> 
	[Richard Draves]  Why are people disabling automatic tunneling?

> >What might be of better use would be to have a new application code for
> >the registry letting people know the IPv4 address of systems accepting
> >auto-tunnels (After all, tunnels are also a sort of application).
> >Something like:
> >
> >application: Auto-Tunnel ::a.b.c.d
> >
> >or
> >
> >application: Auto-Tunnel domain.name
> >
> >provided there is a AAAA (or whatever will replace them) for domain.name
> >translating to ::a.b.c.d
> 
> I can't evaluate the value of doing this, so would prefer others comment,
> but if there is a use in doing this we can ask David Kessens to add it.
> 
	[Richard Draves]  I don't have any opinions on the specific
proposal, but I think it would be valuable for testing purposes to have
something in the registry that points out sites that support automatic
tunnels. Especially if it's not widely supported.

	Rich