IPv6 Support Required for All IP-Capable Nodes

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6540.txt

by ge0rg • 14 years ago

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rfc-editor.org

fpp• 14 years ago

The support for IP6 is now mandatory vs the previous optional IETF RFC and has now also the status of a best practice.

Talk to your ISP if they still don't support it.

mindslight2• 14 years ago

Unless IPv6 will make consumer ISPs once again willing to give static addresses, there's no point waiting for them.

# apt-get install miredo

(Alternatively, if you already have a static IPv4 address and want a static IPv6 address, setup 6to4. This however is about ten times as hard, and will thus take about half an hour.)

StavrosK2• 14 years ago

What the hell? It worked! How did it work?

oasisbob• 14 years ago

Teredo is a pretty clever technology, but there are a lot of downsides vs native v6:

http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2011-04/teredo.html

rollypolly• 14 years ago

There's lots of reasons to dislike Comcast (ehumSOPAehum) but their IPv6 support is outstanding.

steve-howard• 14 years ago

I noticed about a month ago that U-Verse in my area started serving me IPv6. Ironically because a web server's IPv6 site turned out to be incredibly slow, and pinging the server showed more colons than I've come to expect in my IP addresses.

The fact that they managed to do this without my noticing any interruption is commendable. I checked a few months earlier and didn't have IPv6, so I know the transition was fairly recent.

obtu• 14 years ago

In other words: IP implies IPv6. Don't say it speaks IP if what it supports is just IPv4.

runningdogx• 14 years ago

Maybe this will light a fire under the registrars and DNS hosting companies, because some of them still don't support IPv6 glue records (for registrars) or AAAA records (for DNS hosters).

http://www.sixxs.net/faq/dns/?faq=ipv6glue

zokier2• 14 years ago

Does IETF have any way of enforcing such policy?

dsr_• 14 years ago

No.

(Yes. Peer pressure. But an RFC which turns out to be infeasible to implement or wildly speculative or what-have-you doesn't matter, because there won't be any peers pointing out that you ought to do it this way...)

hkleppe• 14 years ago

Not really. But you can tell your ISP it is not RFC compliant, I will tell mine.

alanh• 14 years ago

Not a lot to see here — basically everyone is exhorted to treat IPv6 and v4 compatibility as mandatory.

Interestingly, however, they basically said it sucks to see consumer devices being sold without IPv6, and that there is little market pressure to change the situation because obviously consumers don’t know or care or see it as their responsibility.

gioele• 14 years ago

Hyperlinked HTML version: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6540

IPv6 Support Required for All IP-Capable Nodes

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