IPv6 News

At the RIPE meeting in Dubai two weeks ago, Google presented results from a study about how IPv6-capable “ordinary users” are. And the results are surprising. While an earlier study by Arbor Networks showed only 0.0026 percent of all traffic was IPv6 enabled, Google determined that world wide, 0.238 percent of their users’ systems have IPv6 enabled

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An unlikely combination of IPv6 and NAT experts from the IETF met in Montréal last week to figure out better ways to allow IPv6-only and IPv4-only systems to communicate with each other.

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China isn’t as far along with IPv6 as we’re sometimes lead to believe, which is something that should probably change before IPv4 addresses are predicted to run out in the country in the next two years and three months.

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The Internet is running out of addresses.To get around this problem and a host of others not addressed in the existing Internet Protocol (IPv4),a new revision has been in development for years,called IPv6.Apple has a few tricks up its sleeve for pushing IPv6 adoption,and many Mac users are already chin deep in the technology without even knowing it

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A little over a year ago, I wrote an article about the IPv4 address consumption with the subtitle IPv4 Address Space: 2.46 Billion Down, 1.25 Billion to Go. A week ago, we reached the magic number of 2.7 billion IPv4 addresses used. With 3.7 billion possible addresses,¹ this means we now have less than a billion unused IPv4 addresses left.

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As of February 4, six of the 13 DNS root servers can be queried over IPv6, putting IPv6 on equal footing with IPv4 on the first time

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On February 4, 2008, ICANN will add IPv6 addresses for four root DNS servers to the root zone file, making full IPv6 Internet connections a reality. Time to check that DNS software and those firewalls to avoid any possible trouble.

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Somewhere in the 2020s, a decade after the last IPv4 address has been used up, computer science students are going to learn about the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 as an example of either the best or the worst system upgrade in the world’s history of system upgrades. We know it will be the greatest system upgrade either way.

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Security researchers get around to finding flaws in IPv6 that were dealt with in IPv4 years ago. Ars looks at the issue of IPv6’s source routing and how big of a problem it really is.

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1. Disable IPv6 2. Run boot processes in parallel 3. Aliasing hostname to localhost 4. Disable pango 5. Preload 6. Swappiness 7. Profile grub 8. sysv-rc-conf 9. Kernel hacking 10. Filesystem setup

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