IPv6 is Here

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @03:15AM from the well-kinda-anyway dept.

shawn(at)fsu writes "Reuters is running a story that Vinton Cerf of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) says that "IPv6 been added to its root server systems" I like how they said that it will run along side IPv4 for 20 years to get rid of the bugs. A few previous Slashdot stories out of many here, here and here"

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Re:I do wish by Vancorps · 2004-07-20 03:27 · Score: 4, Informative

I would suggest you check this out.
You can have a whole octet to yourself right now. That's a lot of IP addresses and you're ISP doesn't have to support IPv6, it can be encapsulated in IPv4. There are plenty of gateways out there that will translate the request for you so that only your router will need both IPv4 and IPv6.
It's all up on FreeNet.
Re:A brief and redundant article by bheerssen · 2004-07-20 03:27 · Score: 4, Informative

The term domain addresses refers to IP addresses, not domain names.

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Re:Feeling Old by wonkamaster · 2004-07-20 03:29 · Score: 5, Informative

Not too many people remember v5. The IP version is a reference to the IP header "version" field, and 5 was reserved for ST2: See RFC 1819 Sesion 1.2, 2nd paragraph.

So what do you call the next IP version? Version 6, of course!
Re:v6 could help solve some net problems by rsidd · 2004-07-20 03:48 · Score: 4, Informative

Better still, bring back the old BOOTP protocol? Which if I'm not mistaken just simply keeps a database of MAC addresses to IP Addresses (manually entered),
An IPv6 address includes the 64 bit MAC address.
Not a problem by Wesley+Felter · 2004-07-20 04:26 · Score: 4, Informative

This was solved years ago: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6.