INET6 -- and why I don't use it

Kevin Downey redchin at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 00:07:02 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen
<torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:24:08 -0800
>  Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:
>
>  > You don't set up an IPv6 network. You simply have end nodes that will
>  > use IPv6 when/if it is available by just making a one-line change in
>  > rc.conf as opposed to a kernel re-build.
>
>  But to make it (an ip v6 network) useful, I (as an end user) would need
>  a dns domain for the machines I control, preferable a zone that *I* have
>  control over.
>
>  In other words; if I have machines with ipv6 adresses that I can reach
>  globally, but don't have a dns name for them, the usefulness is very
>  limited.
>
>  Is that challenge solved somehow with ipv6?
>  It doesn't look like dyndns.org supports ipv6 in their free service.
>  --
>  Regards,
>  Torfinn Ingolfsen
>
>
>
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