On Thursday, June 09, 2011 08:21:40 am Chris Louden wrote: > They should start a reward program for people to turn in organizations > and/or people unjustly camping on class C blocks of IPs. :-P
Like the big Universities? IPv6 is important for me as a consumer; I imagine at some time I'll have it. But as a webhosting company, it's not. Here's why: Until the last viewer of my sites has IPv6, I'll always need to have the same number of IPv4 addresses as IPv6. One for each server which hosts sites on shared IP#s, and one for each secured site requiring it's own IP#. If I assign a new site only an IPv6 address only people with IPv6 will be able to see it. Translators will only work one to one on secure Certificates because they won't know which Certificate to use to decrypt it until after it's decrypted. Go ahead and tell me about multi-site Certs. Yes, I suppose I could use only one on each server, listing all the sites. But it doesn't work, because those Certificates are very expensive and you have to get a new one to add another domain. So instead of selling my clients one Certificate which will last them per year, I need to buy for them a new Certificate each time I get a new client. Yes, we're in a bind (no pun intended), but webhosters switching to IPv6 isn't the answer. I wish it was; my switches and my datacenter routers and upstreams are all IPv6 compatible. And the IPv6 allocations are virtually free (you do have to pay an annual fee to ARIN if you get them yourself; if you get them from your upstream, most of them are free or close to free). And as I finish our datacenter reorganization this summer we're getting them. It's just that they're not the answer yet, and may not be for years. Can't we just burn down the University doors and steal back those unused IP#s? WWRSD? (What would Richard Stallman do?) <smile> Jeff -- Jeff Lasman Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
