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Or you could go somewhere with IPv6. The number of places with an IPv4-only restriction is only going to drop.
by regularfry 11y ago
Or you could go somewhere with IPv6. The number of places with an IPv4-only restriction is only going to drop.
- falcolas 11y agoThat's been the promise for... how many years now? IIRC, it was before EC2 even existed, and we're obviously not there yet. Also, it's worth noting that IPV6 is nowhere near as battle hardened as IPV4; there's too many optimization and security gaps to depend on it in production. I've watched a few network gurus burn themselves out attempting to harden a corporate network against IPV6 attacks while keeping it usable.
- regularfry 11y ago> That's been the promise for... how many years now? IIRC, it was before EC2 even existed, and we're obviously not there yet. For some values of "we". If you're stuck on EC2, yeah, you've got a problem.
- coldtea 11y agoBut if you don't use EC2 but some bizarro provider noone really uses then you can have IPv6...
- betaby 11y agoI've heard OVH is second biggest in the world and they do have IPv6.
- regularfry 11y agoNobody ever got fired for buying IBM, right?
- coldtea 11y agoBecause AWS is some legacy dinosaur and not the world leader in such infrastructure, right?
- jandrese 11y agoBut seriously, what is Amazon's big holdup here? Is it really that hard to turn on IPv6 support on their hardware? I can kind of see end user ISPs dragging their heels on IPv6 because they don't want to deal with grandmas wondering why they can't access their quilting forums (which have a busted IPv6 configuration) suddenly, but for something like EC2 you have to assume that the people using it have at least a little technical proficiency.