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IPv6 really isn't that difficult. It only takes a few minutes to get a free IPv6 address from a tunnel broker and add it to your server. My websites and email w

IPv6 really isn't that difficult. It only takes a few minutes to get a free IPv6 address from a tunnel broker and add it to your server. My websites and email were all dual stack less than 24 hours after I started looking into IPv6 for the first time. I wrote a blog post about it last year: https://secure.grepular.com/Setting_up_IPv6_is_Easier_Than_You_Think https://secure.grepular.com/Setting_up_IPv6_is_Easier_Than_Y... If you get a cert error it's because the certificate is signed by cacert.org and several major browser/os combos don't have their root yet.

mey 16y ago
A free tunnel broker isn't going to support the traffic of something like google. And an issue Google has previously run into is, clients getting the incorrect DNS entry and trying to connect across to a ipv6 interface instead of ipv4. This is one of the reasons why google had/has that ipv6.google.com dns name.
- mike-cardwell 16y ago
  If I wasn't clear, I wasn't suggesting that massive websites use free tunnel brokers. I was suggesting that geeks set up their own services with ipv6 capability in order to learn how it works so they know what to do when it becomes more important.
  - mey 16y ago
    Thanks for the clarification :)
btilly 16y ago
Congratulations. Now more people are unable to access your website and email because of known bugs with dual stacks than are likely to access your website and email through ipv6. The main issue are people whose setup says that they will connect preferentially via ipv6, who try to connect because their operating system has support for it, but whose IP provider does not have support. See http://getipv6.info/index.php/Customer_problems_that_could_occur http://getipv6.info/index.php/Customer_problems_that_could_o... for more potential problems you've created. Of course this is a kind of problem that needs to get fixed before ipv6 can be broadly adopted. Which is why this ipv6 days is going to happen.
- mike-cardwell 16y ago
  Going dual stack means approximately 1 in 2000 people can't visit my website. It is a simple tech blog. I am ok with those figures. Other sites obviously wont be.

mey 16y ago

A free tunnel broker isn't going to support the traffic of something like google. And an issue Google has previously run into is, clients getting the incorrect DNS entry and trying to connect across to a ipv6 interface instead of ipv4. This is one of the reasons why google had/has that ipv6.google.com dns name.

mike-cardwell 16y ago
If I wasn't clear, I wasn't suggesting that massive websites use free tunnel brokers. I was suggesting that geeks set up their own services with ipv6 capability in order to learn how it works so they know what to do when it becomes more important.
- mey 16y ago
  Thanks for the clarification :)

btilly 16y ago

Congratulations. Now more people are unable to access your website and email because of known bugs with dual stacks than are likely to access your website and email through ipv6. The main issue are people whose setup says that they will connect preferentially via ipv6, who try to connect because their operating system has support for it, but whose IP provider does not have support. See http://getipv6.info/index.php/Customer_problems_that_could_occur http://getipv6.info/index.php/Customer_problems_that_could_o... for more potential problems you've created. Of course this is a kind of problem that needs to get fixed before ipv6 can be broadly adopted. Which is why this ipv6 days is going to happen.

mike-cardwell 16y ago
Going dual stack means approximately 1 in 2000 people can't visit my website. It is a simple tech blog. I am ok with those figures. Other sites obviously wont be.