On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:27:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
> From there, there is a link to test whether the new IPv6 works on my > system and between me and the reat of the world. It appears I am not > ready. It complained about the DNS server for the most part. Funny > thing is, I use googles DNS servers. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are the > settings. So you are explicitly using IPv4 addresses for your DNS. This is what the test complains about: to get full marks you need to connect to a DNS server via IPv6 as well. I'm not sure if Google provides public DNS via IPv6 yet. > Should I have the USE flag ipv6 enabled or should I leave it off for > now? If so, anyone had any trouble with it or is this a trivial change? You should leave this enabled unless you have a specific reason to turn it off. Kind regards, Hans
