Moving to IPv6

[James Knott]

Some of you may have noticed me talking about IPv6 lately.  IPv6 is 
coming and is necessary, as IPv4 addresses are estimated to reach 
exhaustion within a year.  Everyone, particularly those managing web 
sites or business networks, should be making plans to support IPv6 
ASAP.  I realize that many ISPs do not yet support IPv6, so some method, 
such as using a tunnel broker, is required while waiting for ISPs to get 
up to date.  I use gogoNET http://gogonet.gogo6.com.  Another is 
Hurricane Electric http://he.net and there are others.  In the mean 
time, call your ISP and ask about when IPv6 will be available.  Then ask 
them why they're behind the times.  ;-)  Some hosting sites have IPv6 
available, so all you'd have to do is use it.  DNS servers will require 
AAAA record support, but BIND has supported that for several years.

Here's a link to an article about moving to IPv6, with some more links 
to other articles.
http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/ipv6/141456

BTW, for some reason, Seamonkey, on either Linux or Windows, does not 
like this site.  Firefox and IE work fine.

On my own network, I use OpenSUSE 11.0 (soon to be updated) on an old 
computer for my firewall.  I use the tunnel to get a subnet with 2^72 
addresses and all computers on my network, including my smart phone, get 
an IPv6 address automagically.  When I'm away from home, I use the 
client to get a single IPv6 address on my ThinkPad.

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