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6Bone IPv6 Network Shutting Down Tomorrow

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-a-couple-of-nines dept.

theberf writes "On June 6, 2006 the experimental IPv6 network, the 6bone, will be shut down. All 3FFE:: addresses will revert to the IANA and should no longer be used. All IPv6 traffic should now be using production IPv6 addresses delegated by Regional Internet Registries. The 6Bone has been in operation for 10 years." Here's some more information about "IPv6 day."

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  1. Sign of the Apocolypse? by fredistheking · · Score: 5, Funny

    6bone shutting down on 6-6-6?

    Hmmm...

    1. Re:Sign of the Apocolypse? by fireman+sam · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, the geek Satan is number 0x29A

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    2. Re:Sign of the Apocolypse? by knBIS · · Score: 4, Funny

      "0101100101?" thats meaningless... [looks in mirror] "1010011010!" [screams]

  2. So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    When will they start up 7bone with its 1024 bit addressing? IPv6 is just so... limiting.

    1. Re:So... by HunterZ · · Score: 2, Funny

      I know what you mean. I'm trying to set up a cluster of web servers on every subatomic particle in my body, and while I haven't run out of IPv6 addresses yet, I'm also not getting any thinner these days...

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      Arguing about vi versus Emacs is like arguing whether it's better to make fire by rubbing sticks or banging rocks.
    2. Re:So... by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 2, Funny

      But it was an experiment that didn't work out into somthing that got deployed.

      So, just like IPV6 then.

      The 6bone dying means the last ipv6 broker I know of just went out of commission...

      In some ways it's a pity that ISPs never deployed it - it could have been in wide use by now. As it was you had to search all over the world for a broker and cope with 500ms first hop ping times & service that was never reliable.. the world has moved on and no longer needs it.

    3. Re:So... by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 2, Funny

      When will they start up 7bone with its 1024 bit addressing?

      When you can cram enough memory into routers to handle the tables.

      (Note that some of the tables are not what you'd expect, but are from algorithm hacks to speed up searching to achieve adequate instruction/packet ratios.)

      For 1024 bits, absent algorithmic breakthroughs, you'd need so much that storing one bit per quantum on all the particles in the router wouldn't be adequate. You'd have to go to chipped or even nudged quanta (though you probably wouldn't need to go all the way to pizzication.) B-) See Hal Draper's MS Fnd in a Lbry if you don't know what I'm talking about.)

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    4. Re:So... by Megane · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'd be careful about switching to IP version 7.

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  3. Website won't load by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like they decided to get going with their shutdown ahead of time.

  4. Netcraft confirms - IPV6 is dead :-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    It had to be said.

  5. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Moderators, it's _informative_.

  6. Yes by Apoklypse · · Score: 3, Funny

    it's a sign ... The 5th Horseman

  7. Re:Experimenting with IPv6 by Loonacy · · Score: 2, Funny

    You have to use the IPv6 Google.