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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. Most people don't care about IPv6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IPv6 was primarily designed to solve a *problem*.

    That problem was IPv4 address space exhaustion.

    If the problem isn't hurting people on either side (client or server), then there is no reason for them to migrate to IPv6.

    For people in certain heavy net using countries (such as Japan and S. Korea) which have received a smaller slice of the IPv4 pie, then there is more incentive to move; for the vast bulk of the world there is very little incentive to move to IPv6.

  2. Re:Proxy server fun by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bah, that's nothing. My proxy converts first posts on slashdot into insightful comments!

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.