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Author Topic: Is my Lunarpages host IPv6 ready and capable?  (Read 7138 times)
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« on: February 03, 2011, 07:27:24 PM »
I guess the heading asks it all. TIA  Confused
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« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2011, 07:00:14 AM »
If you're on a working server then what does it matter? IPv4 will be around for a long time even though there aren't any new addresses being handed out and IPv6 is just getting started.
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« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2011, 11:41:48 AM »
Thanks Scanman.

Yes, over the past few days the NRO handed out the last five remaining blocks of IPv4 addresses.

While I would agree that there is still some time to go, I believe that there are some preparations that ISP providers need to make and changes that we will need to make to our web sites to make them IPv6 ready and capable.

It is expected that systems will try to use IPv6 first then IPv4 until eventually IPv4 is phased out.

But it wont be too far into the future before IPv6 addresses start getting handed out and I would just like to be sure that I am not going to loose business to my site as a result of not being IPv6 ready and capable.
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« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2011, 10:53:25 AM »
Quote from: neil_weston on February 04, 2011, 11:41:48 AM
I believe that there are some preparations that ISP providers need to make and changes that we will need to make to our web sites to make them IPv6 ready and capable.

It is expected that systems will try to use IPv6 first then IPv4 until eventually IPv4 is phased out.

But it wont be too far into the future before IPv6 addresses start getting handed out and I would just like to be sure that I am not going to loose business to my site as a result of not being IPv6 ready and capable.

Lunarpages will need to prepare themselves for IPv6 but web designers and developers don't need to do a thing unless you're sniffing for IP addresses. By the way, IPv6 addresses are already in wide use (use ipconfig in a command prompt in Windows to see your address if you have one). Also check http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/ for more info.
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2011, 08:38:02 PM »
This is a pretty valid question, I think, in relation to the need to having to plan to block by ipv6 addresses in the .htaccess file instead of the ipv4 scheme.  I'm half expecting the spammers to migrate to servers running ipv6, in the hopes that they can bypass all the sites that have blocked them out using the ipv4 address.
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« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2011, 03:15:46 PM »
I was about to ask a similar question before finding this existing thread. I say this at the start of the: Worldwide IPv6 Day, June 8 2011.

While it is true that IPv4 isn't going anywhere and indeed must be supported on existing servers for legacy connections, IPv6 offers several compelling advantages over IPv4 -- and who doesn't want to use the latest and greatest technology? IPv6 routing and transfer should be more efficient and secure. Operating Systems now mostly all employ dual-stacks and likely will for the next decade at least, so yea this could be put off.. but I think it has been put off (in general) by the industry long enough. However, sooner or later (maybe a few more years) there will be cases where ISPs have no more v4 IPs to assign to clients and they are forced to either NAT/masq at the ISP *or* simply assign only an IPv6 address. IPv4 connections can be tunneled through the IPv6-only connection, so maybe this is no big deal, but for a theoretical IPv6 only connection, I'd prefer to be able to use IPv6. Heck, even in the case of a dual-stack, I'd prefer to use IPv6 if it is available.

I'd love to hear that Lunarpages is ready and on the ball with IPv6. You can always put off upgrades, there's always an excuse for that. However, I think I speak for most customers when I say that everyone would love to have the option of IPv6. I am going to guess that the routers at Lunarpages are all fully equipped, as I believe CentOS is. Probably all that needs done is some configuration and IP assignment... though that's a guess and I'm certainly no network engineer ;p.
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