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> IPv6 is a big deal though. Everyone's going to have to touch their long-running servers sometime before the end of this year. With IPv6 Day closing in this Ju
by bwooce 15y ago
> IPv6 is a big deal though. Everyone's going to have to touch their long-running servers sometime before the end of this year. With IPv6 Day closing in this June and the eventual migration of residential broadband to IPv6, this is one of those inevitable things that isn't going to magically go away.
I think you're confused about the implications of the IPv6 transition -- IPv4 is a subset of that address space, so existing servers will "just work" via Carrier-Grade NAT that ISPs are providing.
Some tiny percentage of the Internet is IPv6 reachable today, and it ain't all gonna change this year. The IPv4 space can't turn into a parallel ghetto Internet after all...
- count 15y agoWhat carriers are providing 'Carrier-Grade NAT'? IPv4 WILL turn into a ghetto, and with good reason.
- count 15y agoWhy the downvotes? CGN is a barely support draft at the IETF currently. Dual-stack with 6to4/4to6 is the standard based migration mechanism most organizations will be using.
- bwooce 15y agoAsia has been doing IPv6 internally for years, out of necessity, and somehow they still manage to see us. Dual-stack isn't the answer when you've got no IPv4 addresses left to assign.
- qaexl 15y agoI think you're underestimating the effects of Murphy's Law. Ah well, necessity is the mother of invention.