[IPv6 Users] Slashdot: Obsession With Firewalls Could Hinder IPv6

2007-05-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
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RE: ipv6 dns server.

2006-01-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:49 PM -0500 James Jun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps if you looked at www.sixxs.net, there is a tunnel POP right in Atlanta (which seems to be where your web site is hosted at). Actually, I'm on the west coast, near Berkeley. The host I'd like it on is s

Re: ipv6 dns server.

2006-01-03 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:16 PM +0100 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right, if your ISP doesn't offer the service, even if via a tunnel, better change to another ISP. There are lots of reliable ISPs today offering the service, and lots of free transition services. We hav

RE: ipv6 dns server.

2006-01-03 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:53 AM +0800 Lawrence Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can get tunneled service over existing IPv4 connections anywhere in the world (even in the US). See www.hexago.com or Hurricane Electric, among others (not affiliated with either, but have used both).

RE: ipv6 dns server.

2006-01-03 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, January 02, 2006 4:02 AM +0800 Lawrence Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Most client computers (DNS resolvers) that support IPv6 will (and should) use the IPv6 addresses preferentially over IPv4 when both are returned from the DNS. With most ISP's not providing an IPv6 gateway,

Slashdot: Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008

2005-07-02 Thread Kenneth Porter
MoiTominator writes "The White House Office of Management and Budget announced on Wednesday that all federal agencies must deploy IPv6 by June 2008. So far, Defense is the only agency which has made any progress toward implementing the ne

RE:UI for IPv6 address/port entry

2005-04-28 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:42 PM +0200 Peter Bieringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can also use poor man's DNS: /etc/hosts (similar exists in MS Windows...). That still begs the question of how to get the entry into the other user's hosts file, and it only handles the address part, not

RE:UI for IPv6 address/port entry

2005-04-28 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, April 28, 2005 9:30 PM +0200 Peter Grubmair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: in web browsers one uses e.g. http://[2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085]:80 I do not remeber which RFC specifies the format. Anyway, I think IPv4 addresses can be remembered for a short time, but IPv6 addresses

UI for IPv6 address/port entry

2005-04-28 Thread Kenneth Porter
A lot of online games present a list of servers by address, displaying the result as "aa.bb.cc.dd:port". What's the recommended format for presenting address/port pairs for IPv6 to end users, given that the colon is now used to separate words in the address? I expect that for some time to come a

Re: Ethernet base address for an IPv6 system

2005-04-18 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, April 18, 2005 10:59 AM -0700 "Wheeler, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Our company is starting to add IPv6 support to our telecommunications products. I am a tech writer asked to explain how to determine the Ethernet base address for a device networked to an IPv6 net. I'm told th