IPv6

[Uri Even-Chen]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 15:13, Geoff Shang <geoff at quitelikely.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Uri Even-Chen wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the links, I listened to the entire lecture. I understand
>> that Google and Facebook still haven't enabled IPv6 on their main
>> websites.
>
> This appears to be the case.
>
>> http://ipv6.google.com/ doesn't work for me.
>
> Well it only has an IPv6 address, so it won't if you don't have IPv6
> capability.
>
> $ host ipv6.google.com
> ipv6.google.com is an alias for ipv6.l.google.com.
> ipv6.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2a00:1450:8006::63
>
>
>> So I guess it's too early to enable my websites with IPv6.
>
> It's not an either/or thing.  You can have both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses on
> the same host.
>
> $ host ipv6.he.net
> ipv6.he.net has address 66.220.2.75
> ipv6.he.net has IPv6 address 2001:470:0:64::2
>
> Anyway, your hosting provider would need to support IPv6 to some extent
> before you could do this.

I will wait until Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia will do it,
and then I will start worrying about it. Or when my web hosting
providers and ISPs will do it for me (I have more than one hosting
provider and ISP - for more than one website; connecting at home, work
etc.)

>
>> By the way, I wonder what Wikipedia will do with IPv6 addresses? Will
>> they do the same they are doing with IPv4 (save the IP of the user who
>> edited pages)?
>
> I don't see why this would change.
>
>> Will an IPv6 address be permanent for end users, or will it change
>> every day? (I think my IP address at home is not permanent).
>
> This would be up to yoru ISP, though it would be easier for them to allocate
> static addresses and even blocks of addresses so that internal hosts can
> have their own address.
>
> But relying on a dynamic IP address for anonymity is not the best strategy.
>  ISPs can be forced to reveal the identity of a person using a particular IP
> address at a given time.  There are other methods like anonymous proxies etc
> which can more effectively help you hide your identity, though if you've got
> nothing to hide then I wouldn't bother.
>
> Geoff.
>
>


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