Re: IPv6 day

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Isn't this really a concern of network administrators? Maybe your ISP runs
out of static IP 4 addresses, or they start charging more for IP 4
addresses than IP 6? Should web application developers be concerned? Won't
the network guy just give you a domain name that points to an IP 6 address,
and works seamlessly?


On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Raul Jager <raul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> June 6 is IPv6 day.
>
> We, in the midrange must plan to leave IPv4 as secondary and focus in
> IPv6, otherwise we are going to give a strong argument to the ones that
> say midrange is obsolete.
>
> Some information:
> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ulka_athale_1/ripe-ncc-educa-ipv6-day
>
> At some point in time IBM made a mistake with the use of the protocols,
> The i tried to connect using IPv6, and if timed out used IPv4.  The idea
> was to push the use of IPv6, but it back fired, and some PTFs later they
> changed the protocol, requesting IPv6 and IPv4 together and using the
> one that responded first. Since IPv6 is usually faster, if available the
> i will use it, otherwise fall back to IPv4 without delay.
>
> At present the i works great with "dual stack", using both protocols.
>
> At the time the i used IPv4 only after IPv6 timed out there where to
> ways to solve it, the good one, set up IPv6, and the easy one disable
> IPv6. Sadly, there are still some people advising to disable IPv6.
>
> Enjoy, the future internet is here.
>
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