Accelerating IPv6 Adoption With Proxy Servers

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 21, 2004 @01:12PM from the wool-over-your-own-eyes dept.

jgarzik writes "IPv6 presents a catch-22: the most popular web sites on the Internet don't have any incentive to switch to IPv6 until a large portion of their userbase is on IPv6, and their user base does not have a large incentive to switch to IPv6 until many of the popular Internet destinations support IPv6. My proposed solution is simple: Configure a proxy server that serves IPv6 requests, passing those requests through to underlying IPv4-only servers that not have yet been transitioned to IPv6. This article describes how to configure Apache's proxy server to fill this role, and suggests a few ideas for use."

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Re:Most people don't care about IPv6 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-21 14:13 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Oh yeah, NAT is really terrible, let's fuck shit up with a bunch of 6to4 and 4to6 proxies that will be online until the end of time. More bright thinkin from the IP6 crowd.