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Cellar Dweller

Posted on 07-18-08 09:43 PM

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I wonder if anyone else has set up IPv6 on their computers(including servers). Before my main desktop machine was taken out by lightning, I manually set up 6to4 and manually maintained it as the IPv4 address changed. When I get my computer fixed, I intend to set up a script to automatically maintain the correct 6to4 configuration. Too bad DynDNS does not support AAAA records with their standard accounts.

I wonder if anyone here is planning to connect their servers with IPv6 and publish AAAA records for their domain. I found out that the company that hosts the board charges extra for native IPv6, but 6to4 is not blocked.

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Posted on 07-18-08 11:22 PM

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I'm still rather apathetic about the IPv6 standard. While the necessity of a larger address space is obvious, 16 bytes are more than overkill and contribute to both unnecessary bulk in the IP header, significantly slowing down communication especially for small packets, and the resulting address strings being all but easy to memorize. With just 6 or 8 bytes (which, for instance, at least in the 6 byte case, could be packed into nearly alphanumeric 8-character string addresses), they could have easily covered any number of computers that humanity will manage to connect to the internet before it's either banned by right-wing and/or totalitarian governments or humanity nukes itself back into the 10th century.

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Posted on 07-19-08 04:43 AM

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While the address size is a bit on the large side, I don't think that the problems you mention are as bad as you say/imply they are. Most dialup and DSL connections use PPP(oE), which supports header compression that can reduce the impact of the larger addresses. IP addresses are not meant to be manually entered on a routine basis. That is what hostnames are for. Also, IPv6 addresses often have a string of zeros in the middle that can be collapsed for easier typing and memorizing. I believe that 46 bit addresses would be too short to allow a publicly routed address for every networked device.

Overall, I believe that IPv6 is a net gain. ISPs can stop using dynamic address assignments. Users can have enough addresses for every networked device without using NAT. Some aspects of network management become easier if what I have read about IPv6 is to be believed.

Use of IPv6 even without the support of retail level ISPs and content hosts may help speed things up.

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