On 11 September 2015 at 15:24, Emanuele Rusconi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11 September 2015 at 15:55, Richard Melville > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I've already reported a bug in the inetutils ping6 tool to Bruce. > > Sorry, I should learn how to use the trac interface, but it's so > unfriendly that I can't find your report even now that I know it > should be there. > Don't worry, it isn't there. It was just a conversation I had with Bruce on the LFS list, and, as there is currently no interest in IPv6 in the LFS book then there was no need to use the trac interface. > > > Looking at your post, however, it appears to be a > > slightly different problem, as you say it can't find ::1. > > Sorry, I didn't report the error correctly as I should. > It actually just says "Failed at pinging ::1." > > > You say that you're not sure how to properly set up IPv6. If you can be > > more specific maybe I can help. > > Thanks for the offer. The fact is that I don't have an IPv6 provider > (I think?), so I never cared about it. I kept IPv6 enabled on my > Gentoo more out of laziness than anything else (I should recompile a > bunch of stuff to disable it and I don't know if it would be worth > it). > If your ISP doesn't offer IPv6 support (most still don't, but mine does) then you could always use a tunnel broker (some are free like this one https://tunnelbroker.net/) if you are interested in getting up and running with IPv6. Or you could just use IPv6 on your private LAN. Dnsmasq works well with this type of setup. I just can't believe the reticence of ISPs, and users generally, in adapting to IPv6. It's been around for such a long time and, unless an alternative appears (unlikely) it will have to be adopted sooner rather than later. I believe that ISPs are already snatching back unused IPv4 addresses from users to just maintain a small number in reserve. On that basis, surely it's as well to be ahead of the game and adopt IPv6 now. As an interesting aside, and to stress how little adoption of IPv6 there has been on the web, I temporarily lost IPv4 connectivity when I was setting up my dual stack. The web suddenly became a very lonely place; in fact there were very few IPv6 enabled websites available other than all the Google services: gmail, youtube, etc. Richard
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