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Aside from the predictable troubles the author experienced as an early adopter, I find it interesting that he has stumbled on one of the few motives web hosts a
by HerraBRE 16y ago
Aside from the predictable troubles the author experienced as an early adopter, I find it interesting that he has stumbled on one of the few motives web hosts and service providers might have to deploy services on native v6 (instead of relying 6-to-4 NAT): easier tracking and profiling of customers, by recording the MAC portion of their visitors v6 IP addresses.
- bensummers 16y agoI'm sure we can shame Microsoft and Apple into using random numbers instead of MAC addresses.
- HerraBRE 16y agoI'd sign that petition. :-)
- sqrt2 16y agoIt's quite silly that the author doesn't know this, but the feature he requests exists already and has existed for 10 years -- Privacy Extesions for SLAAC in IPv6 (RFC3041). It's even enabled by default on Windows.
- pieter 16y agoYou're right, and I heard it's also enabled by default on OS X Lion. It's already enabled by default in the newer iOS builds.
- bensummers 16y agoGot link for the "enabled by default in Windows" bit? Which versions does this apply to? I'd like to add that correction to the article.
- sqrt2 16y agoI've seen it on Vista, 7 and on XP once IPv6 is enabled. Concerning sources, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-GB?query=rfc%203041%20default&beta=0&ac=8 http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Search/en-GB?query=rfc%2... turns up a few articles.
- justincormack 16y agoIt is quite funny seeing the term "early adopter" used for something this old. I had IPv6 ADSL about 7 years ago, but it was pretty pointless back then other than being able to ping6 places, and ended up discontinuing it. Doesn't sound like there is much more happening now. We need a killer app for ipv6.