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Accelerating IPv6 Adoption With Proxy Servers

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Proxy server fun by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Make sure they're open to the public too. You don't want to be a stingy admin right? You should share your proxy server with the world.

    1. Re:Proxy server fun by wirefarm · · Score: 3, Funny

      >I mean, nobody would embed ads in their IPv6 proxy if it became too popular, right?

      I use mine not only to convert to IPv6, but also to convert English measurements to Metric, Relational Databases to Object Databases and any text to Esperanto.

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    2. Re:Proxy server fun by tolan-b · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hey, cool! I speak Esperanto like a native!

      So not at all then? :)

  2. extra hop by pythro · · Score: 3, Funny

    An extra hop to go through on my web surfing adventure...NOT ON MY WATCH!

    1. Re:extra hop by MemoryAid · · Score: 4, Funny
      An extra hop to go through on my web surfing adventure...NOT ON MY WATCH!

      I don't even have internet on my mobile phone yet, let alone my watch. I bow to your uber-geekiness.

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  3. The world doesn't need all that address space. by acceleriter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure, China and Korea would like billions upon billions of addresses, but that's because they've spammed their IPv4 address space into every blacklist on Earth.

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  4. Re:Most people don't care about IPv6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ever heard of UPnP? It allows auto-configuration of devices. Just plug in, and it works. Let's see, give me an IP address for everything in my house, so my piece of crap- windows running cable box can get a virus too. Good Idea! They have plenty of jobs open for people like you in Redmond.

  5. Re:IPv6: Not Ready For Prime Time by suckmysav · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Cisco routers suck at IPv6."

    Actually, you could probably just shorten this to "Cisco routers suck."

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  6. First a Rod, Then an Egg! by chromatic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Subject line says it most, anyway.

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