On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 05:09:31PM +1000, luv-main wrote: > Hey folks, > > Where's a good place to learn about IPv6? > > I've *mostly* got my head around IPv4 these days, and my ISP still only has > an unsupported 6rd gateway which I've tried with momentary success on my > router. > > I understand that the address space is 128 bits vs 32, that successive > colons mean 0000 between them, that devices can have "local" and "global" > scoped addresses, and it's *supposed* to do away with NAT... but that's > about as far as I've gotten :) > > A server I lease overseas has an IPv6 address block assigned to it, and I'm > struggling to figure out how I'm supposed to assign a reverse DNS to it, so > Google and friends don't flag it for the MTA not having a reverse lookup > (for now, I just lock it to IPv4)... I figured I might as well learn more > about how it works, different to IPv4.. > > Any practical pointers?
I would recommend reading RFC 8200 "Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", available from https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8200. I learned IPv4 (or more especially UDP & TCP) from RFCs 791, 768 & 793. Cheers ... Duncan. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
