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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."

16 of 341 comments (clear)

  1. yassar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this is a first post for freedom

  2. Poll Troll Toll by PollTroll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's better...

    IPv4
    IPv6
    Sex with a mare

  3. FIRST POST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    DEATH TO ANTI-SLASH!
    Ackbar is a sad baby virgin!

  4. Speed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Will this help you to get first post faster?

  5. Even Worse Color Scheme by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=122680&thre shold=1&mode=thread&commentsort=0&op=Reply

  6. Colors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yikes, this is even worse than the IT section.

    1. Re:Colors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Try this:
      http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/21/237204 &tid=95

  7. How strange by aussie_a · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I saw a link to this on another thread. I'm only posting to see which article this is.

  8. You know what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck IPv6, fuck Apache, and FUCK YOU.

  9. You mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...that if I adopt IPv6 I will have access to a larger collection o Asian pr0n?

    I can clearly identify the killer application IPv6 needs.

    Where do I sign up?

  10. VERY DISAPPOINTED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am very very disappointed with the performance of the trolls here at Slashdot these past two weeks. Around here we operate on GOALS and EXPECTATIONS and quite frankly, some of you (you know who you are) just aren't meeting them.

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    1. Re:VERY DISAPPOINTED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      point conceded.

      i don't know about everyone else, but i've been busy with some of the most difficult schoolwork i've ever tried to do.

      i don't like having to put causing trouble on the back burner, but i try to think of it as taking a break from causing trouble to learn to cause trouble better.

      thanks.

  11. Re:you're a troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  13. SSL anyone? by Trygve · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Though SSL can sort of be proxied (without a man in the middle attack, that is), would this work for https sites?

  14. Re:What's the rush? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So, what...you know...like 1 programming language?